Word: santillana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Frank and Bridgman, speakers were Giogio de Santillana and Henry Guerlac, science historians; Harcourt Brown of M.I.T.; J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; Charles Morris of the University of Chicago; and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English...
...each of the conference's three sessions there will be three short speeches followed by an informal discussion. Saturday morning's speakers--science historians Giorgio De Santillana and Henry Guerlac, and Harcourt Brown, Dean of M.I.T. and president of the American Academy of Science, will discuss the "Interaction of the Sciences and the Humanities"; Ernest Nagel, professor of Philosophy at Columbia, will chair the meeting and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will initiate the discussion...
...Crime of Galileo, by Georgio de Santillana, was a fine piece of intellectual detective work that played out the 17th century contest between Scientist Galileo and the Inquisition...
...refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time, Author de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy. Brilliant, but rarefied, the book will appeal especially to those who like to watch a drama of ideas played out against the baroque backdrop of 17th century Italian intrigue...
...distance short of proving heresy. In the end, Galileo was condemned largely on the ground that he had willfully violated Bellarmine's so-called "injunction" of 1616. Aside from its melodramatic trappings, e.g., the threat of torture (the use of which was never remotely contemplated, according to De Santillana), the drama of the Inquisition lies in Galileo's abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons. Galileo was in his 70th year, ill and afraid. Moreover, he was a devout Catholic. "He had realized at last that the authorities were...