Galileo Heilbron John L. Department of History University of California BerkeleyPaperback
Galileo Heilbron John L. Department of History University of California BerkeleyPaperback In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a hurried little masterpiece in John…
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Galileo Heilbron John L. Department of History University of California BerkeleyPaperback
In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a hurried little masterpiece in John Heilbron's words. Indeed, the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the great moments in the history of science.Here is a major new biography of Galileo, a fresh and much more rounded view of the great scientist than found in previous works. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope--the craters of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter--Galileo dramatically challenged our idea of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth in the universe.
More important, Heilbron notes that years of reading the Unlike previous biographers, Heilbron shows us that Galileo was far more than a mathematician: he was deeply knowledgeable in the arts, an expert on the epic poet Ariosto, a fine lutenist.