Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Numbers, Ronald L.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">UK</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Harvard University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>302tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, Illustration</extent> <extent>21 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Ronald L. Numbers</note> <subject> <topic>History</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Religion and science</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Religion and state</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Science</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">215</classification> <classification authority="ddc">N971-R77</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780674057418</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15384/25.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15384/25.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071455.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>