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UNINA9910459817503321 |
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Lipking Lawrence |
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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking |
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Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 |
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1-5017-0439-7 |
0-8014-5484-0 |
0-8014-5485-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Literature and science - History - 17th century |
Science - History - 17th century |
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Europe Intellectual life 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.When Galileo saw the face of the Moon and the |
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moons of Jupiter, Lipking writes, he had to picture a cosmos that could account for them. Kepler thought his geometry could open a window into the mind of God. Francis Bacon's natural history envisioned an order of things that would replace the illusions of language with solid evidence and transform notions of life and death. Descartes designed a hypothetical "Book of Nature" to explain how everything in the universe was constructed. Thomas Browne reconceived the boundaries of truth and error. Robert Hooke, like Leonardo, was both researcher and artist; his schemes illuminate the microscopic and the macrocosmic. And when Isaac Newton imagined nature as a coherent and comprehensive mathematical system, he redefined the goals of science and the meaning of genius.What Galileo Saw bridges the divide between science and art; it brings together Galileo and Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare. Lipking enters the minds and the workshops where the Scientific Revolution was fashioned, drawing on art, literature, and the history of science to reimagine how perceptions about the world and human life could change so drastically, and change forever. |
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UNINA9910453364103321 |
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Autore |
Sedgwick Fred. |
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Will there really be a morning? : life, a guide : poems for Key Stage 2 with teaching notes / / ompiled and introduced by Fred Sedgwick |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002, 2012 |
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0-367-09073-2 |
1-315-06948-2 |
1-134-13750-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iv, 76 p. ) : music |
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Collana |
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English poetry - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Great Britain |
Children's poetry, English |
Electronic books. |
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"A David Fulton book"--cover. |
First published in Great Britain in 2002 by David Fulton Publishers. |
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Introduction; The poems; Teaching notes. |
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Will There Really Be a Morning? is a book about the power of poetry to speak about the themes of what it is means to be human. The first part is an anthology of specially selected poems; the second part provides detailed notes for teachers. |
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UNINA9910967286103321 |
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Distributed algorithms on graphs : proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, Ottawa, Canada, August 1985 / / edited by Eli Gafni and Nicola Santoro |
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Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1986 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GafniEli |
SantoroN <1951-> (Nicola) |
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Electronic data processing - Distributed processing |
Algorithms |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- The Bit Complexity of Probabilistic Leader Election on a Unidirectional Ring -- Minimizing a Virtual Control Token Ring -- New Upperbounds for Decentralized Extrema-Finding in a Ring of Processors -- Efficient Algorithmsfor Routing Information in a Multicomputer System -- Lower Bounds on Common Knowledge in Distributed Algorithms -- Scheme for Efficiency-Performance Measures of Distributed and Parallel Algorithms -- Duplicate Routing in Distributed Networks -- Notes on Distributed Algorithms in Unidirectional Rings -- Sense of Direction and Communication Complexity in Distributed Networks -- The Communication Complexity Hierarchy in Distributed Computing -- Simulation of Chaotic Algorithms by Token Algorithms -- A General Distributed Graph Algorithm for Fair Access to Critical Sections -- Addenda -- Open |
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Problems -- A Bibliography of Distributed Algorithms -- Author Index |
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This volume contains papers presented at the First International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms. The papers present solutions to a wide spectrum of problems (leader election, resource allocation, routing, etc.) and focus on a variety of issues that influence communications complexity. |
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