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Galileo's Glassworks : The Telescope and the Mirror / Eileen Adair Reeves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674026674
  • 9780674042636
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 522/.2092 22
LOC classification:
  • QB85.8 .R44 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Hague, 1608 -- 1. The Daily Mirror of Empire -- 2. Idle Inventions -- 3. Obscure Procedures and Odd Opponents -- 4. The Dutch Telescope and the French Mirror -- 5. The Afterlife of a Legend -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674042636

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Hague, 1608 -- 1. The Daily Mirror of Empire -- 2. Idle Inventions -- 3. Obscure Procedures and Odd Opponents -- 4. The Dutch Telescope and the French Mirror -- 5. The Afterlife of a Legend -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)