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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442659926
035 _a(DE-B1597)483046
035 _a(OCoLC)1004875627
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072 7 _aBIO015000
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082 0 4 _a520/.92
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDrake, Stillman
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGalileo :
_bPioneer Scientist /
_cStillman Drake.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1990]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter One. The Laws of Pendulum and Fall --
_tChapter Two. The Medieval Context --
_tChapter Three. Galileo’s Pre-Paduan Doctrine of Motion --
_tChapter Four. The Ancient Greek Background --
_tChapter Five. Mechanics, Tides, and Copernicanism --
_tChapter Six. Cosmology, Mechanics, and Motion --
_tChapter Seven. Natural Motion and Horizontal Projection --
_tChapter Eight. Oblique Projection,- Other Physics --
_tChapter Nine. Astronomy and the Telescope --
_tChapter Ten. The Telescope and Copernicanism --
_tChapter Eleven. Hydrostatics, Philosophers, and Religion --
_tChapter Twelve. Comets, the Church, and Tides --
_tChapter Thirteen. Concerning Galileo's Dialogue --
_tChapter Fourteen. Two New Sciences --
_tChapter Fifteen. From Galileo to Newton --
_tChapter Sixteen. Galilean Units Today --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSince publication of Stillman Drake’s landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science. Drawing largely from Galileo’s manuscript working papers, Drake now adds a wealth of detail to the story.Among the findings he presents in this volume are the steps that led to discovery of the pendulum law and the law of fall, by which Galileo opened the road to modern physics; Galileo’s path to the new astronomy of Copernicus, closely linked to his first essays in physics; his subsequent misgivings and final reassurances provided by the telescope.Drake focuses on Galileo’s pioneering work in physics, previously unknown, and shows that time has not diminished its value. He also considers some of the factors that played a part in the development of physics, its classical Greek beginnings, the medieval interlude, the contribution of some of Galileo’s contemporaries, and the resistance of others to his new science of motion. We see in a new light the relation of that science to modern dynamics, created by Newton half a century later. Galileo is better known as an astronomer than as a modern physicist. Drake sheds new light here too as he explores Galileo’s pioneer invention of satellite astronomy, his sighting of Neptune two and one-half centuries before that planet was identified, and his proposal of a cosmogony based on speeds of freely falling bodies. With this book Drake confirms Galileo as the first recognizably modern scientist, in both his methods and results.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAstronomers
_zItaly
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAstronomy, Renaissance.
650 0 _aPhysicists
_zItaly
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPhysics
_xHistory.
650 4 _aDISCOUNT-B.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781442659926
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442659926
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