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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by elboru on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:21PM (#12654238)
Any good book you recommend about these topics?, a lot of things are not clear in my mind, like why is Galileo known for "fighting" the Catholic Church about this, but not Copernicus? I have to admit I haven't gone further than some Wikipedia articles.
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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by ziotom78 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:25PM (#12654803)
"Blind watchers of the sky", by Rocky Kolb, is an awesome book about the history of astronomy which spends quite a lot of pages about Galileo's trial. It is wonderfully written and full of humor: Kolb is a notable astrophysicist, but also a gifted writer.
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Re:Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious by fmstephe on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:58PM (#12654560)
The best article I know if

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...

As mentioned by another user below. The story in that link is really a great read. However, I'm unable to tell you how accurate or complete that account is.

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