1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715852503321

Titolo

Letter of W. Re Kyan Bey [i.e. Hekekyan Bey], to Edwin De Leon, United States Consul General in Egypt, on the treatment and use of the dromedary. June 11, 1858. -- Motion to print, referred to the Committee on Printing. June 12, 1858. -- Resolved, that there be printed for the use of the Senate, in addition to the usual number, two thousand copies of the letter of W. Re Kyan Bey [is.e. Hekekyan Bey] to Edward De Leon, Esq., Consul General of the United States in Egypt, on the treatment and use of the dromedary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1858

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Mis. doc. / 35th Congress, 1st session. Senate ; ; no. 271

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 937]

Altri autori (Persone)

Hekekyan, bey.

Soggetti

Camels

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Hekekyan, Bey" is the authorized version of the name according to the Library of Congress Name Authority File.

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796687103321

Autore

Galluzzi Paolo

Titolo

The Lynx and the telescope : The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo / / by Paolo Galluzzi ; translated by Peter Mason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : BRILL, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34232-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, , 2352-1325 ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

509.2/2

Soggetti

Science, Renaissance

Science - Philosophy - History

Astronomy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

“The Secret of the Eyeglass” -- Parallel Convergences? -- Fluid Heavens -- Building a Friendship -- The Copernican System versus Holy Scripture -- Images of Nature: Book or Theatre? -- Confronting the New Scenario -- Relaunching Copernicanism -- Metamorphosis of a Conjuncture: from ‘Marvellous’ to ‘Unfavourable’ -- From the Heavens to the Bowels of the Earth -- The Immaculate Conception of the Barberini Bees -- Plants as Compendium of Nature -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Set in the context of Counter-Reformation Rome, this book focuses on the twenty-year long relationship (1611-1630) between Galileo Galilei and Federico Cesi, the founder of the Academy of the Lynx-eyed. Contrary to the historiographical tradition, it demonstrates that the visions of Galileo and Cesi were not at all convergent. In the course of the events that led to the adoption of the anti-Copernican decree of 1616, Galileo realized that the Lynceans were not prepared to support his battle for freedom of thought. In addition to identifying the author of the anonymous denunciation of Galileo’s Assayer , Paolo Galluzzi offers an original reconstruction of the dynamics which culminated in the Church’s condemnation of the famous Tuscan scientist in 1633. This book was originally published in Italian as Libertà di filosofare in naturalibus: I mondi paralleli di Cesi e Galileo (Storia dell’Accademia dei



Lincei, Studi 4). Rome: Scienze e Lettere, Editore Commerciale, 2014.