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Damnable Equations

The Crime of Galileo. By Giorgio de Sa ntillana. (Heinemann, 30s.) ONE usually thinks of Galileo as a victim of Church cruelty and of the sort of Church idiocy that takes the......

Sea Cruel

The Cassell Miscellany 18484958. Edi ted by Fred Urquhart. (Cassell, 30s.) THIS massive volume is an anthology from a hundred years of publishing by the house of Cassell. In his......