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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... This book about a man who rejected ancient truths in his quest for new knowledge is dedicated to the two most inquisitive people I know: my daughters Åshild and Unn Gyda. Contents Prologue : A Journey to Rome The Musician's Son.
... Sources .... Index of Names ... 96 8288 92 98 103 · 107 111 116 120 122 125 130 132 139 • 144 149 161 165 170 177 181 187 192 197 203 .. 207 209 213 219 Prologue: A Journey to Rome When the greatest scourge of VIII Contents.
... Rome, His Holiness Pope Urban VIII ordered a Te Deum to be performed in the Sistine Chapel, and he himself sang the ... Rome, only that his arrival was unlikely to be. Contents Prologue: A Journey to Rome.
... . Sleeping accommodation was pitiful and it was hard to buy food. He managed to get bread and wine, and occasionally a few eggs. His orders had been to come to Rome as quickly as possible, and the old 2 Prologue: A Journey to Rome.
... Rome. That soon took him into the city. He arrived in Rome on 13 February. It was the first Sunday in Lent and two days before his sixty-ninth birthday. Here, one small consolation awaited him: he was to be the guest of the Grand Duke's ...