Galileo's "Dialogue" / a presentation of Discovery Networks in association with Cronkite/Ward ; produced in cooperation with the Center for the Book, Library of Congress ; produced by Adrian Malone.
Publisher:
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator: Donald Sutherland. Originally broadcast on the Discovery Channel in 1997.
Summary:
It is said that the apple fell on Newton's head, but it was Galileo who planted the tree. This program examines, The Dialogue--arguably the most controversial book of its time--and the tumultuous events revolving around Galileo's visionary scientific achievements. The insights of Harvard University's Owen Gingerich, emeritus professor of the history of science; George Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory; and others, plus dramatizations of scenes from the book and Galileo's trial, capture the intellectual fervor of the Scientific Revolution and the Church's struggle to discourage acceptance of Copernican cosmology.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.