LEADER 04782nam 2200745 450 001 9910464379203321 005 20211009002217.0 010 $a0-300-17006-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300170061 035 $a(CKB)3710000000077194 035 $a(EBL)3421349 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001158906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11648511 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001158906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11108314 035 $a(PQKB)10018421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001400614 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12484129 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001400614 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11338891 035 $a(PQKB)10331549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421349 035 $a(DE-B1597)486367 035 $a(OCoLC)1024006718 035 $a(OCoLC)1029832266 035 $a(OCoLC)1032692198 035 $a(OCoLC)1037968659 035 $a(OCoLC)1042026731 035 $a(OCoLC)1046602579 035 $a(OCoLC)1046997576 035 $a(OCoLC)1049625604 035 $a(OCoLC)1054863830 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300170061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421349 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10819831 035 $a(OCoLC)866737596 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000077194 100 $a20131227h20132010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGalileo $ewatcher of the skies /$fDavid Wootton 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-12536-4 311 0 $a0-300-19729-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction: Conjectural history --$t1. His father's son --$t2. Florence --$t3. Galileo's lamp --$t4. Eureka! --$t5. Seeing is believing --$t6. A friend in need --$t7. Juvenilia --$t8. The Leaning Tower --$t9. Inertia --$t10. Nudism --$t11. Copernicanism --$t12. Money --$t13. Fields of fire --$t14. The experimental method --$t15. The telescope --$t16. Mother --$t17. The Starry Messenger --$t18. Florence and buoyancy --$t19. Jesuits and the new astronomy --$t20. Sunspots --$t21. The Catholic scientist --$t22. Copernicus condemned --$t23. Comets --$t24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo --$t25. Urban VIII --$t26. Family ties --$t27. Permission to publish --$t28. Alessandra Buonamici --$t29. A river floods --$t30. Publication --$t31. The Dialogue --$t32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri --$t33. Trial --$t34. The Two New Sciences --$t35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo --$t36. Galileo's (un)belief --$t37. The cosmography of the self --$tCoda: Galileo, history and the historians --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aGalileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brilliant analyst of the elegantly mathematical workings of nature yet bungling and insensitive with his own family.Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a "new physics"; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton reveals much that is new-from Galileo's premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognized illegitimate daughter-and, controversially, rejects the long-established orthodoxy which holds that Galileo was a good Catholic. Absolutely central to Galileo's significance-and to science more broadly-is the telescope, the potential of which Galileo was the first to grasp. Wootton makes clear that it totally revolutionized and galvanized scientific endeavor to discover new and previously unimagined facts. Drawing extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly, this is an original, arresting, and highly readable biography of a difficult, remarkable Renaissance genius. 606 $aAstronomers$zItaly$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAstronomers 676 $a520.92 700 $aWootton$b David$f1952-$0157522 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464379203321 996 $aGalileo$92457729 997 $aUNINA