1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000924740203316

Autore

POSTIGLIONE, Anacleto

Titolo

Maiorum humanitas : antologia latina per la terza liceo classico / Anacleo Postiglione

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Ferraro, 1988

Descrizione fisica

639 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

878

Soggetti

Scrittori latini - Antologie

Collocazione

V.3.A. 275(VIII B 230)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953531203321

Autore

Reeves Eileen Adair

Titolo

Galileo's glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / / Eileen Reeves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780674042636

0674042638

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Classificazione

UB 2592

Disciplina

522/.2092

Soggetti

Astronomical instruments - Europe - History - 17th century

Telescopes - Europe - History - 17th century

Optical instruments - Europe - History - 17th century

Mirrors - Experiments - History - 17th century

Science - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend.

Sommario/riassunto

Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period.