Galileo : watcher of the skies /

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Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a bri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wootton, David, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, Ã2010.
Subjects:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
Astronomers > Italy > Biography.
Astronomes > Italie > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Astronomers
Italy
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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