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Galileo : watcher of the skies / David Wootton.
| Author/creator | Wootton, David, 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010. |
| Description | xii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-305131061926. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-319) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010027620 |
| ISBN | 9780300125368 (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300125364 (cl : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QB36.G2 W66 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |