Galileo's Glassworks : The Telescope and the Mirror / Eileen Adair Reeves.
Reeves, Eileen Adair, author.
2009
QB85.8 .R44 2008eb
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Title Galileo's Glassworks : The Telescope and the Mirror / Eileen Adair Reeves.
Author Reeves, Eileen Adair, author.
ISBN 9780674042636
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042636
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (239 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674042636 doi
Call Number QB85.8 .R44 2008eb
Alternate Call Number ZS 4560
Dewey Decimal Classification 522/.2092
Summary Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: The Hague, 1608
1. The Daily Mirror of Empire
2. Idle Inventions
3. Obscure Procedures and Odd Opponents
4. The Dutch Telescope and the French Mirror
5. The Afterlife of a Legend
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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