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Galileo's telescope : a European story /

"Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bucciantini, Massimo
Otros Autores: Camerota, Michele, Giudice, Franco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • From the Low Countries
  • The Venetian archipelago
  • Breaking news : lenses and envelopes
  • In a flash
  • Peregrinations
  • The battle of Prague
  • Across the English Channel : poets, philosophers, and astronomers
  • Setting out to conquer France
  • Milan : at the court of "King" Federico
  • The dark skies of Florence
  • Roman mission
  • In motion : Portugal, India, China
  • Epilogue.