| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 508 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-491) and index. |
| Summary |
Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded view of Galileo, his scientific thinking, and the company he kept. |
| Contents |
A Florentine education. Upbringing ; Gap years ; Character analysis -- A Tuscan Archimedes. Hell and mathematics ; Barycentric exercises ; De motu ; Galileo at 25 -- Life in the Serenissima. Settling in ; Steady state -- Galilean science. Reluctant astronomer ; Mover and shaker -- Calculated risks. Starry message ; Celestial messenger ; More rabbits from the hat ; Family affairs and former friends -- Miscalculated risks. Freelance exegetes ; Poetical interlude ; Ill omens -- Vainglory. The Pope ; The knight ; The windmill ; The tilt -- End games. Dramatis personae ; Winding up ; Last days ; The end of the affair? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
|
|
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. |
|
Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
|
|
Astronomers. |
|
Italy. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
| Subject |
Scientists -- Italy -- Biography.
|
|
Scientists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Heilbron, J.L. Galileo. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199583522 (DLC) 2010933141 (OCoLC)642283198 |
| ISBN |
9780191612954 (electronic book) |
|
0191612952 (electronic book) |
|
9780199583522 |
|
0199583528 |
|
