Galileo
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455127965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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At the center of the story, of course, is Galileo's discovery of the telescope, which revolutionized astronomy but put Galileo into conflict with the Catholic Church until 1633, when the Inquisition denounced him, banishing him for the last nine years of his life.. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., presents a lively, dramatic portrait of Galileo, one that not only takes us to
He collided with church authorities in Rome, with his peers and a succession of patrons. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Reston scants both science and 17th-century theology in setting the stage for the general reader, but he recreates the era with immediacy by mining Galileo's journals and letters for dialogue. From Publishers Weekly Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) may seem an unlikely subject for Reston, who has previously chronicled Jim Jones, John Connally and the clash of baseball's Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti. But Galileo, like Reston's present-day su
A brilliant man who went against church dogma olliepopmac Very interesting because little instrumentation was available. The conclusions were right on and the findings were correct. The findings were determined by crude equipment and outstanding logic.. Craters and All Reston does a lot with this. He captures the bad side of the Pope's insistence that Galileo refrain from describing the surface of the moon as anything other than perfectly smooth, shiny, and sinless. Because of course Adam and Eve had not sinned up there. Like Galileo, Reston also catalogues some of the surface imperfections of his subject, and what they suggest about his mindset and his world.The family portrait of Galileo's two daughters, both shunted off to a co. Galileo: A Very Relevant Life James Reston has written a very good book. He discusses many complicated aspects of science and religion, and yet he never gets bogged down in endless monotonous detail. Much of the relevance of Galileo's life comes from our now being in the grip of political correctness, much of it, let's face it, revolving around race, which we are now told, according to a recent series on Public Broadcasting, is simply an "illusion." (Genetic kinship groups an illusion?) It is re