What Galileo saw : : imagining the scientific revolution / / Lawrence Lipking.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 pages) :; illustrations |
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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.