An edition of Galileo (2010)

Galileo

watcher of the skies

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Galileo
David Wootton, David Wootton
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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
328

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Subjects

Astronomers, Biography, Galilei, galileo, 1564-1642, Italy, biography

People

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Places

Italy

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Galileo: watcher of the skies
2010, Yale University Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-319) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
520.92, B
Library of Congress
QB36.G2 W66 2010, QB36.42

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 328 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27124179M
ISBN 10
0300125364
ISBN 13
0978300125368, 9780300125368
LCCN
2010027620
OCLC/WorldCat
601347544

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