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000436624 1001_ $$aWootton, David,$$d1952-
000436624 24510 $$aGalileo :$$bwatcher of the skies /$$cDavid Wootton.
000436624 260__ $$aNew Haven :$$bYale University Press,$$cc2010.
000436624 300__ $$axii, 328 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill., ports. ;$$c25 cm.
000436624 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000436624 5050_ $$aConjectural history -- The mind's eye. His father's son ; Florence ; Galileo's lamp ; Eureka! ; Seeing is  believing ; A friend in need ; Juvenilia ; The Leaning Tower ; Inertia ; Nudism -- The watcher of the skies. Copernicanism ; Money ; Fields of fire ; The experimental method ; The telescope ; Mother ; The Starry Messenger ; Florence and buoyancy ; Jesuits and the new astronomy ; Sunspots ; The Catholic scientist -- The eagle and the arrow. Copernicus condemned ; Comets ; The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo ; Urban VIII ; Family ties ; Permission to publish ; Alessandra Buonamici ; A river floods ; Publication ; The Dialogue -- Prisoner to the Inquisition. Maria Celeste and Arcetri ; Trial ; The Two New Sciences ; Vincenzo, son of Galileo ; Galileo's (un)belief ; The cosmography of the self -- Galileo, history, and the historians.
000436624 5208_ $$aGalileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, this book places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. It draws extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly.
000436624 60010 $$aGalilei, Galileo,$$d1564-1642.
000436624 650_0 $$aAstronomers$$zItaly$$vBiography.
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