The Lynx and the telescope : : The Parallel Worlds of Cesi and Galileo / / by Paolo Galluzzi ; translated by Peter Mason.
Set in the context of Counter-Reformation Rome, this book focuses on the twenty-year long relationship (1611-1630) between Galileo Galilei and Federico Cesi, the founder of the Academy of the Lynx-eyed. Contrary to the historiographical tradition, it demonstrates that the visions of Galileo and Cesi...
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Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 21 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : BRILL,, 2017. ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 21. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (538 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- “The Secret of the Eyeglass”
- Parallel Convergences?
- Fluid Heavens
- Building a Friendship
- The Copernican System versus Holy Scripture
- Images of Nature: Book or Theatre?
- Confronting the New Scenario
- Relaunching Copernicanism
- Metamorphosis of a Conjuncture: from ‘Marvellous’ to ‘Unfavourable’
- From the Heavens to the Bowels of the Earth
- The Immaculate Conception of the Barberini Bees
- Plants as Compendium of Nature
- Epilogue.