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The hinge of the world : in which professor Galileo Galilei, chief mathematician and philosopher to His Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and His Holiness Urban VIII, Bishop of Rome, battle for the soul of the world : a drama

A play on the confrontation between Galileo and his arch-opponent, Pope Urban VIII, the head of a church threatened by Galileo's new natural science. The two men are tied by affection, but separated by doctrine

Print Book, English, 1998
1st ed
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998