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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reeves, Eileen Adair (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
1600 - 1699
Astronomical instruments > Europe > History > 17th century.
Telescopes > Europe > History > 17th century.
Optical instruments > Europe > History > 17th century.
Mirrors > Experiments > History > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Astronomie > Instruments > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Télescopes > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Optique > Instruments > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences > Histoire > 17e siècle.
NATURE > Sky Observation.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Astronomical instruments
Mirrors > Experiments
Optical instruments
Science
Telescopes
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The daily mirror of empire
  • Idle inventions
  • Obscure procedures and odd opponents
  • The Dutch telescope and the French mirror
  • The afterlife of a legend.

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