Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made a series of astronomical discoveries that reshaped the debate over the physical nature of the heavens: he deeply modified the practices and status of astronomy with the introduction of the telescope and pictorial evidence, proposed a radical reconfiguration of the relationship between theology and astronomy, and transformed himself from university…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-04561-0
- EAN: 9780226045610
- Produktnummer: 1622763
- Verlag: Univ Of Chicago Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B17.4 cm x D2.4 cm 576 g
- Gewicht: 576
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