{"product_id":"and-yet-it-moves-paperback","title":"And Yet It Moves - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Gallagher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAnd Yet It Moves\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet is an archeologist of mourning rediscovering that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassaults on science and reason are not new phenomenon. Gallagher follows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePetrarch who spawns a new lyric in part inspired by lost texts, and who motivates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'book hunters' of the Renaissance to search for the buried as well. The world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanged when Poggio Bracciolini discovered Lucretius' On the Nature of Things in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea Benedictine library. Lucretius' poem is a meditation of the universe as infinite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enumbers of atoms wandering randomly through space with no master plan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhatsoever. The book birthed humanist philosophy, masterworks such as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirth of Venus, and inspirations for Galileo Galilei. When Galileo's patrons the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epowerful Medici rose to the Papacy, they chose their power over science and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereason-sentencing and silencing Galileo for life for proving that the earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erevolved around the sun. Digging with his pen, Gallagher brings these stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eback in 'talking sonnets' as if ditching the Latin for the more colloquial Italian of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe people that came into form during the era. Upon his sentencing, Galileo's is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esaid to have uttered 'Eppur si muove, ' knowing that the truth will eventually\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47287827792121,"sku":"9781952335211","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/jnSm09nanr9781952335211.webp?v=1769120499","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/and-yet-it-moves-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}