{"product_id":"and-yet-it-moves-9781952335211","title":"And Yet It Moves","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin Gallagher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Madhat, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Madhat, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Italy\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","brand":"Madhat, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413912281239,"sku":"9781952335211","price":1666.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781952335211.webp?v=1768584770","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/and-yet-it-moves-9781952335211","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}