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 anywhere in Italy, Father Clavius. Christopher Clavius was around fifty years of age. Originally ... mathematicians were already interested in. Clavius was impressed. He praised the practical work Galileo had done, and ...
... mathematician's immediate future was Ferdinando's choice of his successor as cardinal . It was generally accepted that a powerful family like the Medicis had to maintain their representation within the College of Cardinals . But now ...
... mathematician who had so impressed his fellow citizens with his understanding of Hell's dimensions, knew something that very few of his listeners had appreciated. An obscure canon by the name of Copernicus from the faraway Baltic coast ...
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