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Hardcover, royal octavo in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 366 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrated with drawings, engravings, diagrams tables and eight color plates. Presumed first edition with no additional printing listed on copyright page. The story of science and mathematics, aided and abetted by the Catholic Church, all in the shadow of Galileo’s trial for heresy and the incremental undermining of the foundations of the faith. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, clean and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.