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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... , Vincenzio Galilei , was the same age as Cosimo de ' Medici . He too came from an old Florentine family with a medical ancestor . There , any similarity with the Medicis abruptly ceased . Wealth and. The Musician's Son.
... Florentine . But the cost of living was lower in Pisa , a musician had less competition there and , above all , his wife had family in the city , practical , hard - working folk in the woollen trade who could offer a poor relation a ...
... Florentine. But his father was not satisfied with the education the boy could receive in the city of his ancestors. The following year he sent Galileo to the remote monastery at Vallombrosa – the “shady valley” – north of Regello in ...
... Florentine mathematician came in the autumn of 1587 was completely different to the Renaissance city where Rafael and Michelangelo had been great heroes earlier in the century . A lot had happened in the intervening period , the essence ...
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