Bibliograph

Galileo, watcher of the skies, David Wootton

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Galileo, watcher of the skies, David Wootton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Galileo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

601347544

Responsibility statement

David Wootton

Sub title

watcher of the skies

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

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