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Galileo : watcher of the skies /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Conjectural history
- 1. His father's son
- 2. Florence
- 3. Galileo's lamp
- 4. Eureka!
- 5. Seeing is believing
- 6. A friend in need
- 7. Juvenilia
- 8. The Leaning Tower
- 9. Inertia
- 10. Nudism
- 11. Copernicanism
- 12. Money
- 13. Fields of fire
- 14. The experimental method
- 15. The telescope
- 16. Mother
- 17. The Starry Messenger
- 18. Florence and buoyancy
- 19. Jesuits and the new astronomy
- 20. Sunspots
- 21. The Catholic scientist
- 22. Copernicus condemned
- 23. Comets
- 24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo
- 25. Urban VIII
- 26. Family ties
- 27. Permission to publish
- 28. Alessandra Buonamici
- 29. A river floods
- 30. Publication
- 31. The Dialogue
- 32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri
- 33. Trial
- 34. The Two New Sciences
- 35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo
- 36. Galileo's (un)belief
- 37. The cosmography of the self
- Coda: Galileo, history and the historians
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index