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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... 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 the slender hope that everything might yet be sorted out ...
... Latin and logic. Galileo was an assiduous student who thoroughly enjoyed life in these isolated, spartan surroundings. But the boy liked it even better than his father had hoped. After a couple of years he wanted The Musician's Son 7.
Atle Naess. father had hoped. After a couple of years he wanted to join the order, and offered himself as a novice. Perhaps it was youthful religious passion that lay behind this decision, but Galileo also perceived that the strict life ...
... wanted to reintroduce Catholicism into the country, a notion that the clergy and his brothers soon put a stop to. Galileo had not come to Rome and the college for religious reasons. The Jesuits had realised that if they wanted to wield ...
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