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On the Life of Galileo : Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies / Stefano Gattei.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691174891
  • 9780691185743
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 520.92 23
LOC classification:
  • QB36.G2 O62 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note: List Of Sources And Abbreviations -- 1. Racconto Istorico Della Vita Del Sig.R Galileo Galilei / Historical Account Of The Life Of Galileo Galilei Appendix: Proemio / Preface -- 2. Galileo Galilei -- 3. Galilævs Galilævs / Galileo Galilei Appendix: Christophorvs Scheiner / Christoph Scheiner -- 4. Galilævs Galilævs / Galileo Galilei -- 5. Excerpt From Del Mercvrio Ouero Historia De' Correnti Tempi -- 6. [Alcune Notizie Intorno Alla Vita Del Galileo / Notes On Galileo] -- 7. Vita Di Galileo Galilei / Life Of Galileo Galilei -- 8. Lettera Al Principe Leopoldo De' Medici Intorno All'Applicazione Del Pendolo All'Orologio / Letter To Prince Leopoldo De' Medici On The Application Of Pendulum To Clocks -- 9. Galileo Galilei -- 10. Raggvaglio Dell'Vltime Opere Del Galileo / Report On Galileo'S Later Works -- 11. Galilée Galilei / Galileo Galilei -- 12. Galilæus Galilæi / Galileo Galilei -- 13. Galilæus Galilæi / Galileo Galilei -- 14. Grati Animi Monumenta / Testimony Of A Grateful Soul Appendix: Monitum Lectori / Advice To The Reader -- Appendix: Maffeo Barberini's, Adulatio Perniciosa (1620) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy.Here in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani's Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani's text is accompanied by his "Letter to Prince Leopold de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks" (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo's later works, and the long inscriptions on the facade of Viviani's Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the "Adulatio perniciosa," a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini-who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo's prosecutor-as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers.Featuring the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo's pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note: List Of Sources And Abbreviations -- 1. Racconto Istorico Della Vita Del Sig.R Galileo Galilei / Historical Account Of The Life Of Galileo Galilei Appendix: Proemio / Preface -- 2. Galileo Galilei -- 3. Galilævs Galilævs / Galileo Galilei Appendix: Christophorvs Scheiner / Christoph Scheiner -- 4. Galilævs Galilævs / Galileo Galilei -- 5. Excerpt From Del Mercvrio Ouero Historia De' Correnti Tempi -- 6. [Alcune Notizie Intorno Alla Vita Del Galileo / Notes On Galileo] -- 7. Vita Di Galileo Galilei / Life Of Galileo Galilei -- 8. Lettera Al Principe Leopoldo De' Medici Intorno All'Applicazione Del Pendolo All'Orologio / Letter To Prince Leopoldo De' Medici On The Application Of Pendulum To Clocks -- 9. Galileo Galilei -- 10. Raggvaglio Dell'Vltime Opere Del Galileo / Report On Galileo'S Later Works -- 11. Galilée Galilei / Galileo Galilei -- 12. Galilæus Galilæi / Galileo Galilei -- 13. Galilæus Galilæi / Galileo Galilei -- 14. Grati Animi Monumenta / Testimony Of A Grateful Soul Appendix: Monitum Lectori / Advice To The Reader -- Appendix: Maffeo Barberini's, Adulatio Perniciosa (1620) -- Bibliography -- Index

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The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy.Here in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani's Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani's text is accompanied by his "Letter to Prince Leopold de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks" (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo's later works, and the long inscriptions on the facade of Viviani's Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the "Adulatio perniciosa," a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini-who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo's prosecutor-as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers.Featuring the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo's pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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