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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... 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.
... mathematician and philosopher from having to make this humiliating and dangerous journey. But the Grand Duke provided the most comfortable means of travel at his disposal, a commodious carriage from the grand ducal carriage houses. The ...
... mathematician and philosopher, signor Galileo Galilei, had to appear before the Holy Office, also known as the Inquisition, in three days' time. There he would be interrogated and incarcerated for an indefinite period, until judgement ...
... mathematician and military engineer by the name of Ostilio Ricci. He came into contact with Galileo and discovered that the young student was interested in mathematics. The teaching of mathematics at the university was extremely poor ...
... mathematician came in the autumn of 1587 was completely different to the Renaissance city where Rafael and Michelangelo had been great heroes earlier in the century . A lot had happened in the intervening period , the essence of which ...