Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood StillSpringer Science & Business Media, 23 de febr. 2006 - 221 pàgines "I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies." The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all times. The story of his life and times, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book. Atle Næss has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in European history.
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... Florence, were severely af- fected. Everyone knew the symptoms: sufferers were stricken with faintness, and after a few hours black buboes appeared in the groin and armpits. The buboes were a sure sign. Everyone knew then what to expect ...
... Florence. After a couple of days' travelling through the Chianti region he arrived at Siena, where he had spent a winter during his youth, almost half a century earlier. Now wind and sleet blew across the brick-red, amphitheatre-like ...
... Florence was troubling: the plague had flared up once more. The Florentines heard the constant ringing of small bells in the evening darkness, announcing that the corpse-bearers were at work. In reality, the Ambassador achieved little ...
... Florence , into the Western World's undisputed centre for architecture , sculpture and painting during an age that an admiring future was to christen the Renaissance . This golden age was definitely on the wane by the year 1564 . Cosimo ...
... Florence and Pisa had never been very cordial . In his Divine Comedy , Florence's greatest son , Dante Alighieri , depicts Pisa as the cradle of treachery , and places some very eminent Pisans in the deepest depths of Hell . But the two ...