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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... Tuscan To Rome and the 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 ...
... Tuscan compatriot Michelangelo had constructed. But he was racked with rheumatism, and the news from his family back home in Florence was troubling: the plague had flared up once more. The Florentines heard the constant ringing of small ...
... Tuscan : firstly , his intense need to draw attention to himself , quite literally to raise himself above others . Secondly , his almost miraculous combination of craftsmanship , technical expertise and artistic talent which had made ...
... Tuscan provincial town , firmly ruled from Florence . Vincenzio had married to keep the Galilei family going : his Giulia was pregnant . On 15 February 1564 the couple's eldest son was born in a rented house near the church of Sant ...
... Tuscan GalileoGalileiwasanimpoverishedyoungmanwithbigambitionsandmany talents. He was to prove a brilliant writer. He was musical like his father. He could draw and paint, and he seriously considered making his livelihood in art – a ...