[PDF.98ck] Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?

Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?

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 | #3901522 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1995-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.87 x5.98l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 316 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| An Intellectual Tour de Force|By Customer|I am normally sceptical of history (or any other) books that cite that mountebank Michel Foucault with approval, as Rivka Feldhay does early in this book. However, this proved to be a magnificent exception. Dr Feldhay's fresh look at the Galileo affair is a work of original scholarship and great erudition. She challenges the familiar| |"This book is noteworthy for its original approach to the interpretation of Galileo's trial and for its wealth of information about the ecclesiastical and theological history of the period." Isis

"Feldhay's textual scholarship is careful, her dist

Historians of science have tended to view Galileo's trials as an example of the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century. This book questions the traditional "grand narrative" that opposes science and religion, and thus attempts to reconceptualize a key episode in the history of modern science. Feldhay offers a new interpretation of the debate between Galileo and the Church, viewing it as a "dialogue" rather than a "conflict." The known contradict...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical Dialogue?   |  Rivka Feldhay. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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