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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipking, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Literature and science > History > 17th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642 > Influence.
History.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
1600 - 1699
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Science.
Europe.
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing a revolution
  • What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing
  • Kepler's progress: imagining the future
  • The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics
  • "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear
  • The dream of Descartes
  • A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth
  • The century of genius (1): Measuring up
  • The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world
  • Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge
  • Appendix 1: The fable of sound
  • Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.