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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... arguments for this. His educated audience knew only too well that the earth was round. Every scholar had known that since antiquity. Eratosthenes of Alexandria had with fair accuracy calculated the circumference of the Earth 200 years ...
... argument : Ipse dixit ! – “ He said so himself ! ” There were many , of course , who realised that not every answer to natural mys- teries could be found in 1900 - year old treatises , but nevertheless the Aris- totelian framework of ...
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