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Galileo: Decisive Innovator: Cambridge Science Biographies

Autor Michael Sharratt Prefață de David Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 1996
In this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness, and penetration of Galileo Galilei. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to understand a crucial stage of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was a path-breaker for the newly-invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language, and a quite brilliant populariser of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at last been officially and handsomely recognised by the Church's 'rehabilitation' of the Inquisition's most famous victim, fully discussed in the last chapter. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to non-scientists and his mistakes are not overlooked. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator - one of the greatest ever known.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521566711
ISBN-10: 0521566711
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 34 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Science Biographies

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The strangest piece of news; 2. Early life; 3. Professor at Pisa; 4. The proper home for his ability; 5. Discoveries and controversies; 6. The condemnation of Copernicanism; 7. Controversy and new hope; 8. The Dialogue and Galileo's condemnation; 9. Two new sciences; 10. Rehabilitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'There are many other books which delve deeply and comprehensively into Galileo's life and works … but Sharratt's volume is an excellent introduction to the man aptly known as the 'father of modern physics'.' Irish Astronomical Journal

Descriere

An entertaining, accessible biography of one of the greatest innovators ever known.