From Library Journal
The resurgence of interest in Galileo in the past few years, in part because of the Roman Catholic Church's reexamination of Galileo's trial, was demonstrated by the amazing success of Pietro Redondi's Galileo, Heretic ( LJ 9/15/87). Now, Segre's book fills in some of the gaps in the existing Galileo literature. Segre examines the academies and universities that Galileo worked with and looks closely at the activities of Galileo's followers. He explains how and why we know what we do about Galileo and how some of the myths about Galileo were started (such as dropping things from the Leaning Tower of Pisa). He shows that Galileo's followers were not as affected by the church's condemnation as was previously believed and discusses whether or not Galileo was the father of experimental science. Segre's work augments more biographical books like Stillman Drake's Galileo (Univ. of Toronto Pr., 1990). Recommended for college and university libraries and any history of science collections.
- Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ., Chicago
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ., Chicago
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
