Four short works illuminate the discoveries and the philosophy of the Italian astronomer and physicist who fought for the scientist's release from religious and
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...' Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
The remarkable astronomical discoveries made by Galileo with the new telescope in 1609-10 led to his famous disputes with philosophers and religious authorities
Maintaining that the Greek mode of thought is, in essence, the tendency to establish principles of mediation on rational grounds, the author argues that the cou
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-20 - Publisher: ABC-CLIO
While astronomy is a burgeoning science, with tremendous increases in knowledge every year, it also has a tremendous past, one that has altered humanity's under
