LEADER 04319nam 2200661 450 001 9910787287703321 005 20240118101340.0 010 $a1-5017-0439-7 010 $a0-8014-5484-0 010 $a0-8014-5485-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801454851 035 $a(CKB)3710000000271214 035 $a(OCoLC)894227398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10961883 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370349 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12454192 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370349 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11291421 035 $a(PQKB)10214681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138665 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551240 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58362 035 $a(DE-B1597)496505 035 $a(OCoLC)1041979348 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801454851 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138665 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10961883 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681664 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000271214 100 $a20140430d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat Galileo saw $eimagining the scientific revolution /$fLawrence Lipking 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50382-6 311 $a0-8014-5297-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroducing 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. 330 $aThe 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 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. 606 $aLiterature and science$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aScience$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y17th century 615 0$aLiterature and science$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a001.09/032 700 $aLipking$b Lawrence$0537869 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787287703321 996 $aWhat Galileo saw$93718683 997 $aUNINA