Man and Crisis
By: José Ortega y Gasset. Translated from the Spanish by Mildred Adams.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York and London
Language: eng
Translation of: En torno a Galileo
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393001211
First sentence: IN June of 1633 Galileo Galilei, then seventy years of age, was forced to kneel before the Inquisitorial Tribunal of Rome and renounce the Copernican theory, a concept which was to make possible the modern science of physics.