1. Life of Galileo
In addition, it will detail Drake's viewpoint of Galileo and show how his pugnacious manner made enemies from fellow colleagues and how his incessant drive to reform how science is conducted inevitably came to confront the fundamental tenements of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It must be kept in mind that the Roman Catholic Church in Italy throughout this period was on the defense in response to the Protestant threat and in many ways attempted to squelch and extinguish through different means any threat to its authority. The most dangerous sources were the developing ideas and theor...
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