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| Genre/Form: | Trials, litigation, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wade Rowland |
| ISBN: | 1559706848 9781559706841 1559707224 9781559707220 |
| OCLC Number: | 51304090 |
| Notes: | "First published in Canada by Thomas Allen Publishers and revised for this edition"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Illustration and photo credits -- Acknowledgments -- Overture -- Pope Paul V -- Time of crisis -- Doctrinal Revolutions -- Dialogue -- Science's motives -- Curiosity -- Negotiation -- Galileo the Aquarian -- Ptolemy's world -- Comets and supernova -- Kepler's genius -- Uses of hypotheses -- Young Galileo -- Studies in motion -- Experimental method -- Number and beauty -- Pythagoreans and the Reduction of Quality to quantity -- Ferrara and Copernicus -- Reluctant Revolutionary -- Challenging Aristotle -- Stimulating meeting -- Stagirite -- Primacy of mind -- Good -- deductive science -- Aristotle's influence -- Question of infinity -- Copernican caution -- Saving the appearances -- Padua years -- Telescopic discoveries -- Lure of the Medici-- Jesuits -- Rumors of reaction -- Medician court -- Phases of Venus -- Sunspot disputes -- Triumph in Rome -- Cardinal Bellarmine -- Bruno's heresy -- Infinite universe -- Aristotle revisited -- Struggles of Aquinas -- Return of Pythagoras -- Storm Warnings -- Cardinal Barberini -- Conflict is joined: "Letter to Christina" -- Bellarmine's response -- Under attack -- Dangerous mission -- Barberini's argument -- Defeat in Rome -- Warning -- Dialogue in Venice -- Science's successes -- Nature of knowledge -- Further dialogue in Venice -- Science and faith -- Faith and reality -- Nature of progress -- On the Lido -- Problem of objectivity -- Reasoning's recursiveness -- Map and the territory -- Unfortunate outburst -- At Santa Maria Maggiore -- Galileo's conservatism -- Kepler's heterodoxy -- Remarkable fresco -- Scientific testament -- Models of the World -- Paradox of empiricism -- Pope Urban VIII -- Intimations of change -- Galileo's dialogue -- Suppression -- Summons from the inquisition -- Enigmatic Pope -- Mass in St. Peter's -- Chance encounter -- Remarkable city -- History's parochialism -- Uncomplicated man -- Motives of pontiffs -- Dialogue in Vatican City -- Galileo's rehabilitation -- "Learned Ignorance" -- Puzzle of the abjuration -- Final journey to Rome -- Inquisition -- Denial -- Confession -- Sentence -- Judgment and abjuration -- Unspoken issues -- Aftermath -- Return to Arcetri -- Discourses on two new sciences -- Visit from Hobbes -- Milton's Tribute -- On the road to Florence -- Galileo's tomb -- Human happiness -- Science and number -- Limits to Scientific knowledge -- Unfinished journey -- Appendix: Question of Galileo's "Perjury" -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Wade Rowland. |
Abstract:
520.92 G158r.
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