Galileo : watcher of the skies / David Wootton.

  • Wootton, David, 1952-
Date:
[2010], ©2010
  • Books

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Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important & controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, & author, this book places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. It draws extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored.

Publication/Creation

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

xii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

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Contents

Conjectural history -- The mind's eye. His father's son ; Florence ; Galileo's lamp ; Eureka! ; Seeing is believing ; A friend in need ; Juvenilia ; The Leaning Tower ; Inertia ; Nudism -- The watcher of the skies. Copernicanism ; Money ; Fields of fire ; The experimental method ; The telescope ; Mother ; The Starry Messenger ; Florence and buoyancy ; Jesuits and the new astronomy ; Sunspots ; The Catholic scientist -- The eagle and the arrow. Copernicus condemned ; Comets ; The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo ; Urban VIII ; Family ties ; Permission to publish ; Alessandra Buonamici ; A river floods ; Publication ; The Dialogue -- Prisoner to the Inquisition. Maria Celeste and Arcetri ; Trial ; The Two New Sciences ; Vincenzo, son of Galileo ; Galileo's (un)belief ; The cosmography of the self -- Galileo, history, and the historians.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-319) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Galilei)
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ISBN

  • 9780300125368
  • 0300125364