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What Galileo saw

imagining the scientific revolution

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English
Pages
314

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What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
2016, Cornell University Press
in English
Cover of: What Galileo Saw
What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
2015, Cornell University Press
in English
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What Galileo saw: imagining the scientific revolution
2014, Cornell University Press
in English

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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.

Edition Notes

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

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001.09/032
Library of Congress
PR149.S4 L56 2014, PR149.S4L56 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 314 pages :
Number of pages
314

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26461843M
Internet Archive
whatgalileosawim00lipk
ISBN 10
080145297X
ISBN 13
9780801452970
LCCN
2014017110
OCLC/WorldCat
9766286, 879538889

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