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EBOOK Galileo
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191625022
EAN: E5FF8481EB
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Stron: 528
Data wydania: 2012
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Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius,        or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words.          Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented        telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations        that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the        centrality of the Earth - the appearance of the little book is regarded asone of the        greatest moments in the history of science. It was also a point of change in the        life of Galileo himself, propelling him from professor to prophet.But this is not        the biography of a mathematician. Certainly he spent the first half of his career as        a professor of mathematics and has been called 'the divine mathematician'. Yet he        was no more (or less) a mathematician than he was a musician, artist, writer,        philosopher, or gadgeteer. This fresh lively new biography of the 'father of        science' paints a rounded picture of Galileo, and places him firmly within the rich        texture of late Renaissance Florence, Pisa, and Padua, amid debates on themerits of        Ariosto and Tasso, and the geometry of Dante's Inferno - debates in which the young        Galileo played an active role.Galileo's character and career followed complex paths,        moving from the creative but cautious humanist professor to a 'knight errant,        quixotic and fearless', with increasing enemies, and leading ultimately and        inevitably to a clash with a pope who was a former friend.

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