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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... Medici still commanded some respect, the 22-year old ruler could do nothing to prevent his ageing mathematician and philosopher from having to make this humiliating and dangerous journey. But the Grand Duke provided the most comfortable ...
... Medici was Duke of Tuscany . The Medicis had originally been physicians , but had later turned to banking and business . For more than a century the family had dominated Florence with its power and wealth . But new times had arrived in ...
... Medici family and was rated as the finest among his contemporaries in Florence. Hisfather'sworkandhisownenvironmentinclinedGalileomoretowards art than to science. But in the wake of the Renaissance, the line between these two areas was ...
... Medici family had owned a palace there for many years, and Francesco began the building of a newer and larger one, in the best district, down by the Arno. In this way he could add lustre to the city and remind the Pisans of who held ...
... Medici. He spent most of his time isolated in his villa in Pratolino with his extremely unpopular former mistress, now the Grand Duchess Bianca. Rumours in the city had it that they experimented with poisons which Bianca was to use in ...