Galileo's Visions

Galileo's Visions
Author: Marco Piccolino
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199554358


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In a fascinating and accessible style, Marco Piccolino and Nick Wade analyse the scientific and philosophical work of Galileo Galilei from the particular viewpoint of his approach to the senses (and especially vision) as a means of acquiring trustworthy knowledge about the constitution of the world


Galileo's Visions
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Marco Piccolino
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In a fascinating and accessible style, Marco Piccolino and Nick Wade analyse the scientific and philosophical work of Galileo Galilei from the particular viewpo
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Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Thomas A Hockey
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-25 - Publisher: CRC Press

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Since the earliest times one of the brightest lights in the heavens has been that of Jupiter, mythical king of the gods and the largest planet in the solar syst
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Language: en
Pages: 686
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-29 - Publisher: Spectra

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At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the i
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Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Renée Raphael
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-15 - Publisher: JHU Press

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How did early modern scientists interpret Galileo’s influential Two New Sciences? In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house ar
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Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Mario Livio
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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An “intriguing and accessible” (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientist