What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.

  • Lipking, Lawrence, 1934-
Date:
2014
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Publication/Creation

Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.

Physical description

xvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    AB.AA6
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ISBN

  • 080145297X
  • 9780801452970