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21. The Galileo Connection by Charles E. Hummel | |
Paperback: 293
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(1986-02-17)
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Foundational to Any Science & Religion Study
They Tricked The Pope
Stuck between your sunday school teacher modern science? |
22. Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide by Galileo Galilei | |
Paperback: 387
Pages
(1997-05-25)
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23. Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen | |
Hardcover: 212
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(1958-06)
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Galileo's Story
Pythagorean Magic! Yea!
Pythagorean Magic! Yea! |
24. The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (California Studies in the History of Science) | |
Paperback: 382
Pages
(1989-05-19)
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I Couldn't Put It Down
Reference only
Emphasis on "documentary"
This is MUST if you want to know about the Galileo Affair |
25. Galileo and the Universe (Science Discoveries) by Steve Parker | |
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(1992-06)
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26. Galileo Galilei and Motion: A Reconstruction of 50 Years of Experiments and Discoveries by Roberto Vergara Caffarelli | |
Hardcover: 330
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(2009-11-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description Among the many books on Galileo Galilei only very few deal directly and in depth with his scientific accomplishments proper. This is one of them and among the correspondingly sparse literature the author of this work distinguishes himself by focusing on mechanics, in particular on the fundamental concept of motion and percussion - having performed crucial original experiments and in Galileo´s spirit. Indeed, while the author lets Galilei speak for himself when he explains his experiments and findings, he also makes full use of our present day knowledge of physics to make the reader better understand the perspective. The result of this very fine understanding is an unsurpassingly authoritative account on some of the foundations of preclassical mechanics as laid down by the great Pisan scientist, widely regarded as the first experimental physicist in the modern sense. This book will not only be an indispensable source of reference for historians of sciences but appeal to anyone interested in the foundations of experimental physics in general and of mechanics in particular. |
27. Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1994-08-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Neil Dickson, Roy Dotrice, Jeannie Elias, Jill Gascoine, Stacy Keach, Peter Lavin, Robert Machray, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Simon Templeman, Joanne Whalley, Matthew Wolf Customer Reviews (4)
Great Play, Timely and Scary
A great Social/Political Satire...
Putting it on...
Eating the apple from the tree of knowledge. |
28. Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606 (Dibner Library Publication, N0 1) by Galileo Galilei | |
Paperback: 95
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(1978-06)
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The law of similar triangles belaboured unto death. |
29. Galileo Galilei: A Life of Curiosity (Pull Ahead Books) by Jennifer Boothroyd | |
Library Binding: 32
Pages
(2006-12-19)
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30. Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror by Eileen Reeves | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2008-01-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's creation in The Hague in 1608 and Galileo's alleged acquaintance with such news ten months later. In an inquiry into scientific and cultural history, Eileen Reeves explores two fundamental questions of intellectual accountability: what did Galileo know of the invention of the telescope, and when did he know it? The record suggests that Galileo, like several of his peers, initially misunderstood the basic design of the telescope. In seeking to explain the gap between the telescope's emergence and the alleged date of the astronomer's acquaintance with it, Reeves explores how and why information about the telescope was transmitted, suppressed, or misconstrued in the process. Her revised version of events, rejecting the usual explanations of silence and idleness, is a revealing account of the role that misprision, error, and preconception play in the advancement of science. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in a critical period and, more generally, shows how documents typically outside the scope of early modern natural philosophy--medieval romances, travel literature, and idle speculations--relate to two crucial events in the history of science. Customer Reviews (2)
Galileo's Glassworks
A Scholarly Work, But... |
31. Discourse on Bodies in Water (Phoenix Edition) by Galileo Galilei | |
Hardcover: 128
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(2005-09-22)
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32. The Hinge of the World: In Which Professor Galileo Galilei, Chief Mathematician and Philosopher to His Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and His Holiness Urban VIII by Richard N. Goodwin | |
Hardcover: 209
Pages
(1998-06)
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33. The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana | |
Paperback: 354
Pages
(1978-06-15)
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Good used book
Riveting Indeed
Galileo's Trial still timely today
Excellent book, if over-written
The most useful book on Galileo so far |
34. Life of Galileo (Penguin Classics) by Bertolt Brecht | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2008-05-27)
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A Very Good Hands-On Dramatic Exercise for AP Students
Galileo - Science vs. the Vatican circa 1600
Can a "Historical" Play Be Dated? |
35. Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies) by Michael Sharratt | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(1996-04-26)
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Effective and Manageable biography
Upside Down Through a Telescope Biographer Michael Sharratt did a wise thing. He describes Galileo's adventures with the new telescope in the very first chapter of his biography, because he knows this is what we want to know first. It is a compelling chapter, although there is no way to tell the story without a certain measure of demythologizing. Galileo did not invent the telescope; the instrument was in common use in the Dutch Republic, though our hero certainly improved upon it. He never had a telescope strong enough to identify the rings of Saturn [another Dutchman, Huygens, gets credit for that.] And perhaps most depressing, Galileo first conceived of a telescope as an instrument of naval intelligence and tried to market it as such. Sharratt's book is not for curious little boys, but for the thoughtful grownups they became. The bulk of this book is not about the dramatic discoveries, but the wonder and dismay they precipitated. This work has a certain jargon true to its time. Galileo by trade was a mathematician. As the times did not require the high precision math of the nuclear-computer age, mathematicians, at least the good ones, served society by promulgating what we might call the sciences of organization: logic, the structure of accurate thought, and physics, the predictability of causes and effects. By Galileo's time, the early seventeenth century, traditional logic and physics were under assault by a number of independent scientists whose hypotheses and improved observation methods were bending the old medieval synthesis to the breaking point. Under particular assault were two venerable systems: Ptolemy's concept of the universe in which the sun, planets, and stars circled the earth; the other. Aristotle's complex synthesis of observable matter and motion. Sharratt traces with considerable detail Galileo's early disenchantment with both Ptolemy and Aristotle. Although questioning whether the Tower of Pisa events were quite the spectacle they were reported to be, Sharratt examines Galileo's method of disproving Aristotelian truisms such as the tendency of heavier objects to fall faster than lighter ones. Galileo, like many of his contemporaries, romanced the theories of Copernicus, whose theory of a sun centered universe better explained the retrograde motion of planets as observed from the earth. It was Galileo's eventual marriage to the Copernican system that would cause him so much trouble with the Church. The new telescope in the hands of a Copernican newlywed was an almost dangerous union. Galileo used his early observations virtually exclusively to attempt to prove the validity of the Copernican system [though Keppler, with all his number crunching, did a more thorough job of this.] Galileo's discovery of four moons revolving about Jupiter established at least that the earth was not the center of motion. The crescent face of Venus made a strong case, as he saw it, for a sun-centered universe. Perhaps most damaging to traditionalists, the discovery of mountains and valleys on the moon implied that heavenly objects could, for all practical purposes, undergo the same secular critiques as earthly matter and principles. Sharratt depicts Galileo as a gregarious man with many friends who, like most struggling artisans, knew how to ingratiate himself to influential patrons for financial support and connections. He could be jealously protective of his prerogatives and he did not suffer fools gladly. Sharratt's research leads him to believe that Galileo ran afoul of the Jesuits, or at least some of them, who were only too happy to provide Robert Bellarmine and the Roman Inquisition with disquieting interpretations of Galileo's works. The Inquisition's public dispute with Galileo involved the latter's teaching of Copernicanism. Put simply, adherence to Copernican theory in 1616 was tantamount to a denial of Biblical inerrancy in the eyes of the Catholic Church, then deeply enmeshed in struggles with Protestant reformers over, among other things, Biblical interpretation. However, there can be no doubt that Galileo's dismemberment of the Aristotelian system was viewed as an equally inimical threat to the unity and soundness of Catholic doctrine, also under fire from Protestants. In 1616 a somewhat friendly and informal encounter with Bellarmine and Pope Urban VIII resulted in an avuncular warning that Galileo refrain from public advocacy of Copernicanism. Sharratt reports that there was some confusion over precisely what these men agreed to. Hence, when Galileo published his masterpiece The Dialogue in 1632, in which he enhanced and reinforced earlier writings, he was arrested by the Inquisition for reneging upon the instruction of 1616. Sharratt's description of the trial is terse and brief; Galileo lived his remaining years under house arrest. Somewhat misplaced is the final chapter on Galileo's rehabilitation by John Paul II in 1992. This chapter has the marks of an afterthought or editorial recasting. The author himself admits that the "rehabilitation" was of the Church, not Galileo. More tellingly, Sharratt makes no mention of present struggles between Church traditionalists and modern day Galileos, and he would have needed to look no further than to reproductive science. One need only consider the present state of Catholic sexual ethics to see that the microscope has replaced the telescope as an object of terror for today's Bellarmines. ... Read more |
36. Truth on Trial: the Story of Galileo Galilei by Vicki Cobb | |
Hardcover:
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(1979)
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37. Le Opere Di Galileo Galilei, Volumes 3-4 (Italian Edition) by Eugenio Albèri, Vincenzio Viviani, Celestino Bianchi | |
Paperback: 462
Pages
(2010-02-16)
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38. GALILEO GALILEI SPACE PIONEER by ARTHUR S. GREGOR | |
Hardcover:
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(1966)
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39. Galileo Galilei. In Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten by Johannes Hemleben | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2002-10-01)
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40. Galileo Galilei: Sa Vie Son Proces Et Ses Contemporains (1862) (French Edition) by Philarete Chasles | |
Hardcover: 302
Pages
(2010-09-10)
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