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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... Professor's Commitments Modern Physics Is Born .. A New Star in an Unchanging Sky ? The Balls Fall into Place 31 33 37 39 42 The Roman Style 44 The Tube with the Long Perspective . 47 A New World ... 51 Jupiter's Sons ... 54 Johann ...
... professors, cardinals, noblemen, even His Holiness himself – wanted to hear about his theories and discoveries. Now the Embassy had become a benign prison. But at least for the time being he was spared real imprisonment. This gave him ...
... professor was as interested in his social status as in academic achievement. Galileo began to attend the lectures that were relevant to medicine, and it was not long before it became apparent that he was no ordinary student. He was not ...
... professor , could aspire to . Such an association with a court did of course also mean that any fall from grace would be a long one . Vincenzio probably understood his son . He was working hard on his musical theory , and had finally ...
... professor of mathematics . But before leaving Florence , he gave a lecture in the city's prestigious Academy , founded to promote Tuscan as the foundation for the common Italian written language . He had been set the task of describing ...