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050 00 $aQB36.G2$bR62 2003
082 00 $a520/.92$221
100 1 $aRowland, Wade.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81066674
245 10 $aGalileo's mistake :$ba new look at the epic confrontation between Galileo and the Church /$cWade Rowland.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Pub. :$bDistributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group,$c2003.
300 $a298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"First published in Canada in 2001 by Thomas Allen Publishers and revised for this edition"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-289) and index.
520 1 $a"In his provocative reexamination of one of the turning points in the history of science and thought, Wade Rowland contends that the dispute concerned an infinitely more profound question: What is truth and how can we know it? Ingeniously using the Socratic method - a method Galileo himself employed - the author demonstrates that in the epic confrontation between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, Galileo's mistake was to insist that science - and only science - provides the truth about reality. The Church rejected this idea, declaring that while science is valid, it provides mere models for reality, models that enable people to better understand and manipulate the world around us. Truth is a metaphysical issue - beyond physics - and it involves such matters as meaning and purpose, which are unquantifiable, and therefore not amenable to scientific analysis. In asserting the primacy of science on the territory of truth, Galileo strayed from purely scientific inquiry into the theological realm, an act that put him squarely on the warpath with the Church. The outcome would change the world."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGalilei, Galileo,$d1564-1642.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003254
600 10 $aGalilei, Galileo,$d1564-1642$xTrials, litigation, etc.
650 0 $aReligion and science$zItaly$xHistory$y17th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110666
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582
852 00 $bmil$hQB36.G2$iR62 2003