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Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror
Harvard University Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-0-674-04263-6 | Cloth: 978-0-674-02667-4 Library of Congress Classification QB85.8.R44 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 522.2092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period. See other books on: Astronomy | Experiments | Galilei, Galileo | Mirror | Space Science See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-674-04263-6
Cloth: 978-0-674-02667-4
eISBN: 978-0-674-04263-6
Cloth: 978-0-674-02667-4
Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
