Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition

Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy. Although subscribing to an anti-literalist view of the Bible, as per Saint Augustine, Galileo considered himself a believing Catholic Playing to his own strengths a deep knowledge of Italy, a longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore Dan Hofstadter explains this apparent paradox and limns this historic moment in the widest cultural context, portraying Galileo as both humanist and scientist, deeply versed in philosophy and poetry, on easy terms with musicians, writers, and painters. "

Author: Dan Hofstadter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/10/2010
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393338201

About the Author
Hofstadter, Dan: - Dan Hofstadter is the author of The Earth Moves and Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples (a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). He has lived in Florence and Naples and speaks and reads Italian fluently. He lives in Rensselaerville, New York.