Published: Springer, 2005
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1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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“…-- The letter to Castelli -- "How to go to heaven, not how the heavens go" -- Foolish and absurd in philosophy, formally heretical -- The hammer of the heretics -- Deaths and omens -- Comets portend disaster -- Weighing the words of others on gold scales -- A marvellous combination of circumstances -- War and heresy -- European power struggle and Roman nephews -- The old and the new -- "An advantageous decree" -- Two wise men---and a third -- The Inquisition's chambers -- Diplomacy in the time of the plague -- An order from the top -- "Nor further to hold,
teach, or defend it in any way whatsoever" -- Convinced with reasons -- "I, Galileo Galilei" -- Eternity -- A death and two new sciences -- The meeting with infinity -- "That universe ... is not any greater than the space I occupy" -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendix.…”
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