The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the New Cosmology, and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633

by Mark C. Carnes, Michael S. Pettersen, Frederick Purnell Jr., et al.

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In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that supervises the Roman Inquisition. At times action shifts to the palace of Prince Cesi, founder of the Society of the Lynx-Eyed,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393937348

ISBN13:9780393937343

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 8.4" x 10.6"

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