Michael Sharratt

Galileo

Decisive Innovator
Herausgeber: Gregory Kohlstedt, Sally; Knight, David M.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharrat 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 popularizer of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at least been officially and handsomely recognized 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521566711
• ISBN-10: 0521566711
• Artikelnr.: 22379230

Inhaltsangabe

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.