What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /

What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /

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Author / Creator:	Lipking, Lawrence, author.
Imprint:	Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014. ©2014
Description:	xvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642 -- Influence. Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642. Literature and science -- History -- 17th century. Science -- History -- 17th century. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life. Literature and science. Science. Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10094978

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ISBN:	9780801452970 (cloth : alk. paper) 080145297X (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.

Table of 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.