Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood StillSpringer Science & Business Media, 23 lut 2006 - 221 "I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies." The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all times. The story of his life and times, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book. Atle Næss has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in European history.
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... realised that his eldest son was uncommonly gifted and lavished special attention on him . He taught Galileo to play the lute , and the boy soon became a skilful player . He also learnt two other things from his father's toil with his ...
... realised. Francesco's spouse died under mysterious circumstances, after which he held an extravagant wedding ceremony with his infamous lover, Bianca. Even worse was the fact that the new Grand Duke protected his younger brother Pietro ...
... realised that if they wanted to wield influence, their scholastic calibre had to be of the very best, and the Collegio Romano could congratu- late itself on possessing the greatest contemporary mathematician anywhere in Italy, Father ...
... realised that not every answer to natural mys- teries could be found in 1900 - year old treatises , but nevertheless the Aris- totelian framework of understanding limited their imagination and thought processes . The very young ...
... realised that its speed was closely related to the medium it was falling through: an iron ball and a wooden ball might fall at roughly the same speed through air, but in water they behaved quite differently! Archimedes had taught him ...
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Signs in the Sky | 23 |
A New World 51 | 50 |
Friendship and Power | 77 |
Deaths and Omens | 103 |
The Inquisitions Chambers | 138 |
in Any Way Whatsoever | 161 |
Eternity | 173 |
Epilogue | 197 |
Postscript | 203 |
Sources | 211 |
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