What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.
By: Lipking, Lawrence [author.].
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BookPublisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780801454851 (e-book).Subject(s): Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Influence | Literature and science -- History -- 17th century | Science -- History -- 17th century | Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 001.09/032 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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