Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood StillSpringer Science & Business Media, 23 Şub 2006 - 221 sayfa "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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... Roman Style 44 The Tube with the Long Perspective . 47 A New World ... 51 Jupiter's Sons ... 54 Johann Kepler , Imperial Mathematician 58 Several Signs in the Sky ......... . 63 Friendship and Power ... 77 A Dispute About Objects that ...
... Roman Nephews . The Old and the New .. " An Advantageous Decree " Two Wise Men - and a Third The Inquisition's Chambers .. Diplomacy in the Time of the Plague An Order from the Top " Nor Further to Hold , Teach , or Defend It in Any Way ...
... Roman Inquisition (1542). At the same time the popes began to view themselves more and more as absolute rulers; not merely as spiritual leaders, but also as princes of the Papal States, just like other sovereigns in autocratic Europe ...
... Roman toga. The young professor of mathematics had little time for the assumed and, to his mind, superficial dignity that this garment bestowed on its wearer. He penned a three-hundred-line lampoon2 on the toga in all its essence. Not ...
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Signs in the Sky | 23 |
A New World 51 | 50 |
Friendship and Power | 77 |
Deaths and Omens | 103 |
The Inquisitions Chambers | 138 |
in Any Way Whatsoever | 161 |
Eternity | 173 |
Epilogue | 197 |
Postscript | 203 |
Sources | 211 |
139 | 218 |