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emil wohlwill, galileo and his battle for the copernican system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

hans-werner schütt
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galileo galilei is one of the few figures in the history of science who has attracted the imagination even of laymen to the natural sciences. the battle of this great physicist against the domination of his church, a battle which he ultimately lost, manifests fundamental human interest that extends beyond the individual. galileo pits the right of the thinking individual against the right of an institution that defends its claim to set norms for individual thinking because it posseses superhuman truths.

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appendix: a forgotten controversy:
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Science in Context , Volume 14 , Issue s1 , June 2001 , pp. 371 - 373
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2001 cambridge university press

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*translator's note: this article was first published as an introduction to wohlwill 1969. we thank hans-werner schütt and the sändig verlag, wiesbaden, for the kind permission to republish it. the original contains the following information: “a comprehensive portrayal of the personality and the work of emil wohlwill is in preparation at the institute for history of the natural sciences of the university of hamburg (schütt 1972); to this end a wealth of material of previously unpublished documents has been analyzed. “the notes have been standardized. the list of references can be found in a bibliographical section at the end of the appendix.