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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... Jesuits 5 8 A Surveyor of Inferno The Spheres from the Tower . From Pisa to Padua 11 14 17 20 Signs in the Sky 23 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium .. 26 Lecturer and Designer . 29 Drawing Close to a Court A Professor's Commitments ...
... Jesuits Galileo hurled himself into mathematics with an energy that showed he had finally found a calling , a direction to his life . Even without a degree he was undoubtedly one of the most ... Jesuits 11 To Rome and the Jesuits.
... Jesuits. The young Jesuit Order had been founded in Paris by the Spanish noble- man, Ignatius Loyola. With a background in the army and higher education, Loyola built up within a few years an effective, elitist organisation that greatly ...
... Jesuit order at the age of seventeen and had spent most of his life in Italy. He wrote a number of textbooks on various mathematical and astronomical subjects, books that Galileo knew from his studies. He played a key part in the ...
... Jesuit goodwill was not enough to secure him a permanent position. A professorship was vacant in Bologna, but it went to Giovanni Magini who was nine years older and had good connections with Duke Gonzaga in Mantua. Galileo had to be ...