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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... 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 the slender hope that everything might yet be sorted out amicably. Hope grew as week ...
... theory of music . He had studied with well known humanists in Venice and Rome , and was engaged in writing a great thesis in which he was ambitiously attempting to revive contemporary music by returning to the principles of antiquity ...
... theory made use of mathematics and physics – indeed, music as a taught subject was reckoned as one of the quadrivium subjects, together with arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. (The linguistic disciplines – trivium – were grammar ...
... theory of perspective. It was taken as read that painters had to study anatomy. The young Cigoli was so keen on dissection that he contracted a serious and long-lasting illness through over-exposure to cadavers! Vincenzio, however, was ...
... theory , and had finally completed his great thesis in dialogue form ( Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music ) . He argued polemically with his professional adversaries , while at the same time developing his theory in new directions ...