Galileo's Glassworks : The Telescope and the Mirror /

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Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obs...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeves, Eileen Adair (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Astronomical instruments > Europe > History > 17th century.
Mirrors > Experiments > History > 17th century.
Mirrors > Experiments.
Optical instruments > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Telescopes > Europe > History > 17th century.
SCIENCE / History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Hague, 1608
  • 1. The Daily Mirror of Empire
  • 2. Idle Inventions
  • 3. Obscure Procedures and Odd Opponents
  • 4. The Dutch Telescope and the French Mirror
  • 5. The Afterlife of a Legend
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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