What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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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.