Nova - Galileo's Battle For the Heavens [VHS]

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	Artist(s):	Nova
	Video by:	Wgbh Boston
	Sales Rank:	288355

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Recording label: Wgbh Boston
EAN: 9781578078929
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 157807892X
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 2002-11-26
Universal product code (UPC): 783421358232
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Unrated

Description
At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent, scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the universe. British actor Simon Callow (Shakespeare in Love, Four Weddings and a Funeral) brings Galileo to life, humanizing the great thinker’s passion, intelligence, and arrogance while depicting his frustrations with fellow philosophers and scientists, and with Roman Catholic church leaders.

Based on Dava Sobel’s best-selling biography Galileo’s Daughter, this two-hour film offers a vivid re-imagining of Galileo’s incredible achievements that forever changed the way we view our place in the universe. It also investigates the momentous personal and spiritual conflicts Galileo faced—most especially in defending the controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun.

Join noted Galileo authorities and experience the remarkable life behind the discoveries, and see letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo’s pioneering telescopic observations, his fateful Inquisition trial for heresy, and life in the seventeenth century.

Running time: 120 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)