Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

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Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion is written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674256956 (ISBN 10) and 9780674256958 (ISBN 13).

Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to ­puncture the myths, from Galileo’s incarceration to Darwin’s deathbed conversion to Einstein’s belief in a personal God who “didn’t play dice with the universe.” Each chapter in Galileo Goes to Jail shows how much we have to gain by seeing beyond the myths.