Galileo Galilei : At the Threshold of the Scientific Age / by Wolfgang W. Osterhage.
Osterhage, Wolfgang W. author.
2018
QC5.53
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Title Galileo Galilei : At the Threshold of the Scientific Age / by Wolfgang W. Osterhage.
Author Osterhage, Wolfgang W. author.
ISBN 9783319917795
331991779X
9783319917788
3319917781
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91779-5
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-91779-5 doi
Call Number QC5.53
Dewey Decimal Classification 509
Summary This new scientific biography of Galileo explores the influences on, and of, his exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond. Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his conflict with the church establishment of his time is no less famous. In this book, authored by a physicist and history scholar, Galileo's life and work are described against a backdrop of the prior scientific state of the art in his various fields of achievement. Particular emphasis is placed on Galileo's vision of the world in relation to historic and also future cosmological models. The impact of his discoveries and theories for the later development of physics and astronomy is a further focus of the narrative.
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Series Springer biographies.
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Introduction
Time and Space
Early Years (1564-1588)
Padova
Florence
Cosmological Excursion
Florence revisited
Final Years
Conclusions. .

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