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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... centre for architecture , sculpture and painting during an age that an admiring future was to christen the Renaissance . This golden age was definitely on the wane by the year 1564 . Cosimo I de ' Medici was Duke of Tuscany . The ...
... centres like Bologna or Padua. It was an educational establishment without international cachet, where the average professor was as interested in his social status as in academic achievement. Galileo began to attend the lectures that ...
... centre of learning, Collegio Romano, which occupied an entire block in the middle of Rome between the Pantheon and the main street, Via del Corso. In only a few years the Collegio Romano had become a very important institution and was ...
... centre of gravity of various objects, an area of study the Jesuit mathematicians were already interested in. Clavius was impressed. He praised the practical work Galileo had done, and discussed the fundamental problems that arose as ...
... centre of the Earth, where Lucifer himself reigned and everything was everlasting frost and ice – as far away from Heaven, light and warmth as it was possible to get. Lucifer was at the centre of a sphere. Galileo did not need to ...