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What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution
Title
What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.
ISBN
9780801452970 (cloth : alk. paper)
080145297X (cloth : alk. paper)
Publication
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
Contents
Introducing 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.
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