The Lynx and the telescope.
The association between Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and Federico Cesi (1585-1630, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, or Academy of the Lynxes), and how much their philosophies agreed or were different.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill,
[2017]
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Colección: | Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
volume 21 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "The Secret of the Eyeglass"
- Parallel Convergences?
- Fluid Heavens
- Building a Friendship
- The Copernican System versus Holy Scripture
- Images of Nature: Book or Theatre?
- Confronting the New Scenario
- Relaunching Copernicanism
- Metamorphosis of a Conjuncture: from 'Marvellous' to 'Unfavourable'
- From the Heavens to the Bowels of the Earth
- The Immaculate Conception of the Barberini Bees
- Plants as Compendium of Nature
- Epilogue.