Galileo
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.07.2012
Abbildungen
w. 60 b&white line drawings
Verlag
Oxford University PressSeitenzahl
528
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.6/4.3 cm
Gewicht
811 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-19-965598-4
is regarded as one of the greatest moments in the history of science. It was also a point of change in the life of Galileo himself, propelling him from professor to prophet.
But this is not the biography of a mathematician. Certainly he spent the first half of his career as a professor of mathematics and has been called 'the divine mathematician'. Yet he was no more (or less) a mathematician than he was a musician, artist, writer, philosopher, or gadgeteer. This fresh lively new biography of the 'father of science' paints a rounded picture of Galileo, and places him firmly within the rich texture of late Renaissance Florence, Pisa, and Padua, amid debates on the
merits of Ariosto and Tasso, and the geometry of Dante's Inferno - debates in which the young Galileo played an active role.
Galileo's character and career followed complex paths, moving from the creative but cautious humanist professor to a 'knight errant, quixotic and fearless', with increasing enemies, and leading ultimately and inevitably to a clash with a pope who was a former friend.
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