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Re: Question on Galileo without Elsevier



Richard:

Though it might not be an answer to your question but:

As far as I remember Galileo was taken to task for publishing "Dialogues" without Pope's permission. The source is Drake, Galileo the Pioneer Scientist.

Ari Belenkiy

Mathematics Department
Bar-Ilan university

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Feinman" <RFeinman@downstate.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Question on Galileo without Elsevier

If turned down by a scholarly journal, would Galileo have had any legal recourse to get a paper published?

If his lawyer could demonstrate that the scientific standards of his work were commensurate in quality with other papers published in a particular journal, could he argue that only pressure from the church or even sincere opposition because of contradiction of church doctrine, was keeping him from being published?

Does anybody know if there is any legal recourse for a privately
owned journal?

Does a journal's editor have a completely free hand?

Richard D. Feinman, Co-editor-in-chief
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