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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /

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Hovedforfatter: Lipking, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
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Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642 > Influence.
Literature and science > History > 17th century.
Science > History > 17th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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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