books.google.com.au - This book examines the teaching and practice of the twin arts of argumentation--rhetoric and dialectic--in the time of Galileo. Galileo was an ardent controversialist on behalf of his astronomical theories, yet many today are unacquainted with the kinds of argument that became a focal point in his famous...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Rhetoric_and_dialectic_in_the_time_of_Ga.html?id=Lw50esHmgacC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRhetoric and dialectic in the time of Galileo
