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1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Prologue: A journey to Rome -- The musician's son -- A gifted young Tuscan -- To Rome and the Jesuits -- A surveyor of Inferno -- The spheres from the tower -- From Pisa to Padua -- Signs in the sky -- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium -- Lecturer and designer -- A professor's commitments -- Modern physics is born -- A new star in an unchanging sky? -- Drawing close to a court -- The balls fall into place -- The Roman style -- The tube with the long perspective -- A new world -- Jupiter's sons -- Johann Kepler, imperial mathematician -- Several signs in the sky -- Friendship and power -- A dispute about objects that float in water -- Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon! -- The letter to Castelli -- "How to go to heaven, not how the heavens go" -- Foolish and absurd in philosophy, formally heretical -- The hammer of the heretics -- Deaths and omens -- Comets portend disaster -- Weighing the words of others on gold scales -- A marvellous combination of circumstances -- War and heresy -- European power struggle and Roman nephews -- The old and the new -- "An advantageous decree" -- Two wise men---and a third -- The Inquisition's chambers -- Diplomacy in the time of the plague -- An order from the top -- "Nor further to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatsoever" -- Convinced with reasons -- "I, Galileo Galilei" -- Eternity -- A death and two new sciences -- The meeting with infinity -- "That universe ... is not any greater than the space I occupy" -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendix |
| Summary |
"The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all time. The story of his life and the age in which he lived, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought to life in this book." "Atle Naess has written an account of one of the great figures in European history. For this biography he was awarded the Brage Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Norway."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index |
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. cct |
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 fast |
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Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography
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Religion and science -- Italy -- History -- 17th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Religion and science -- Italy -- History -- 17th century.
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Astronomers -- Italy.
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Astrónomos
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Vida intelectual
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Religión y ciencia
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Astronomers
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Intellectual life
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Religion and science
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Sterrenkunde.
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Astronomia (história)
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Astrônomos (biografia histórica)
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068990
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789.
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Italy
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3540219617 |
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9783540219613 |
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354027054X |
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9783540270546 |
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128046108X |
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9781280461088 |
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6610461082 |
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9786610461080 |
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