Galileo and the denialists /
Livio, Mario, 1945-
Galileo and the denialists / Mario Livio - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - New York ; London : Simon & Schuster, c2020 - xv, 286 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 centimetres
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-269) and index.
Rebel with a cause -- A humanist scientist -- A leaning tower and inclined planes -- A Copernican -- Every action has a reaction -- Into a minefield -- This proposition is foolish and absurd -- A battle of pseudonyms -- The assayer -- The Dialogo -- The gathering storm -- The trial -- I abjure, curse, and detest -- One old man, two new sciences -- Galileo : the final years -- The saga of Pio Paschini -- On the interface between science and religion : Galileo and Einstein -- One culture!
"A biography of the great astronomer and scientist, and an examination of the faith vs. science question, then and now, written by a noted astrophysicist and author"--
9781501194733
2019032142
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Astronomers--Italy--Biography
Scientists--Italy--Biography
Religion and science--History
Faith and reason--Christianity
QB36.G2 / L658 2020
Galileo and the denialists / Mario Livio - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition - New York ; London : Simon & Schuster, c2020 - xv, 286 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 centimetres
Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-269) and index.
Rebel with a cause -- A humanist scientist -- A leaning tower and inclined planes -- A Copernican -- Every action has a reaction -- Into a minefield -- This proposition is foolish and absurd -- A battle of pseudonyms -- The assayer -- The Dialogo -- The gathering storm -- The trial -- I abjure, curse, and detest -- One old man, two new sciences -- Galileo : the final years -- The saga of Pio Paschini -- On the interface between science and religion : Galileo and Einstein -- One culture!
"A biography of the great astronomer and scientist, and an examination of the faith vs. science question, then and now, written by a noted astrophysicist and author"--
9781501194733
2019032142
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Astronomers--Italy--Biography
Scientists--Italy--Biography
Religion and science--History
Faith and reason--Christianity
QB36.G2 / L658 2020
