Defense of Galileo: The Mathematician from Florence

by Tommaso Campanella and Thomas Campanella

Despite extensive study of the Galileo affair in recent years, there are still some important documents relating to the case which have received little attention in the English-speaking world. In his translation of Thomas Campanella's Apologia pro Galileo, Richard J. Blackwell presents for the first time in English a reliable and highly readable translation of this important and neglected work. Campanella, the maverick Dominican, sought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268008698
• ISBN13: 9780268008697
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"