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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... , Imperial Mathematician 58 Several Signs in the Sky ......... . 63 Friendship and Power ... 77 A Dispute About Objects that Float in Water 80 Sun , Stand Thou Still upon Gibeon ! 84 The Letter to Castelli " How to Go to Heaven.
... friendship with Lodovico Cardi, known by the name Cigoli, who was barely five years his senior. At an early age this gifted painter was commissioned by the Medici family and was rated as the finest among his contemporaries in Florence ...
... friends made a simpler contrivance, a so-called pulsilogium. The measurement of pulse was an important diagnostic tool for the doctors of that period. Galileo constructed a pendulum, the length of which could be adjusted so that it ...
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