Galileo by James Brodrick S.J. (hardcover) 1964

Description: GALILEO the great but cantankerous scientist has-rarely been seen as a man, standing in his own right on his own merits and defects. On the one hand, pious Catholics have too often felt duty bound to defend the action of the pope who condemned him: on the other, Protestants have championed him as the fearless upholder of the right to honest scientific thought in the face of papist obscurantism-as a Protestant at heart. James Brodrick's penetrating and richly evocative study brings the contentious genius skilfully to life, with all his human flaws but with all his energy and vitality. It also sets Galileo fairly and squarely in his time the age in which an eager intellectual curiosity existed side by side, and often in conflict with, the rigid authoritarianism which hamstrung scientific study. With a lively insight into the problems of all the parties concerned in the Galileo affair, and with scrupulous fairness, the portrait of Galileo is built up. This work is based on wide and scholarly research and written with such grace and skill that it is as vivid and gripping as a what that was fast novel.

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