Redondi, Pietro; Rosenthal, Raymond

Galileo: Heretic

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2350407
ISBN: 0691084513

First American edition. Top edge faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.

x, 356 pp. Translated into English from the original Italian 'Galileo eretico' by Raymond Rosenthal. The author's main thesis is that Galileo famous trial did not take place because he promoted a heliocentric view of the universe, but because he promoted a non-Aristotelian theory of physics at variance with the Church's doctrine of transubstantiation.

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