What Galileo saw, imagining the scientific revolution, Lawrence Lipking
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What Galileo saw, imagining the scientific revolution, Lawrence Lipking
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index
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non fiction
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What Galileo saw
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bibliography
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Lawrence Lipking
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imagining the scientific revolution
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Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams
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