Galileo's Glassworks : : The Telescope and the Mirror / / Eileen Adair Reeves.
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 obs...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Table of 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