Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia
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Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia is a book by Karl von Gebler about Galileo. The contents list chapters headed Galileo at Siena and Arcetri and Failing Health and Loss of Sight. The chapter on Siena and Arcetri lists a request to the Grand Duke of Tuscany to ask for his release, postponed on the advice of Niccolini.
The chapter on failing health and loss of sight lists the completion of the Dialoghi delle nuove Scienze and a visit from Milton. The text says Galileo really was a truly religious man, and that what he wrote to Peiresc about his religious spirit was also quite true. The contents also list Galileo only detained twenty-two Days at the Holy Office, and an Assertion that the Acts have been falsified refuted.
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- Author
- Karl von Gebler
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
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- Astronomy
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