The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition by Dan Hofstadter

The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition

Great Discoveries

Dan Hofstadter

240 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging slow-paced
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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 ...

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