Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

The outer archives are busy

by Stillman Drake, Noel M. Swerdlow, Trevor Harvey Levere

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For a century it has been universally assumed that Galileo wrote his celebrated Dialogue in a deliberate attempt to defeat the purpose of an edict issued by the Church to prohibit Copernican books.

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