Re: Question on Galileo without Elsevier

["Ari Belenkiy" <belenka@mail.biu.ac.il>]

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>
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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?
>
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