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Thematology --- Literature --- Galilei, Galileo --- Milton, John --- England
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Die Figur Galileo Galilei ist für die europäische Wissenschaftsgeschichte, für die Kulturwissenschaften und für eine wissensgeschichtlich orientierte Literatur- und Kunstwissenschaft von großem Interesse. In diesem Band werden die Überschneidungen, Wechselwirkungen und Transferprozesse zwischen den wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Dimensionen untersucht, die für Galileis Profilierung als frühneuzeitlicher Wissenschaftler ebenso wichtig sind wie für die im weiteren Sinn kulturelle Wahrnehmung seiner Entdeckungen und seiner Schriften - vor allem in Literatur und Kunst. Der Band ist interdisziplinär konzipiert, um die fachlichen Einzelperspektiven von Literatur-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlern sowie Wissenschaftshistorikern zusammenzuführen. Analysiert werden Formen und Funktionen der Produktion, Konzeptualisierung und Repräsentation von Wissen sowie Aspekte der Diskussion und Diffusion von Galileis Wissensansprüchen im Kontext der Frühen Neuzeit. Mit dieser Fokussierung auf die im Schnittbereich verschiedener kultureller Formationen angesiedelte Etablierung Galileis liefert der Band somit einen Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Erforschung von Galileis Rolle und Rezeption in der europäischen Kultur- und Wissensgeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Science --- Communication in science --- History --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galilei, Galileo. --- History of Science.
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Science --- Naturwissenschaften. --- Mathematik. --- Sagredo, Gianfrancesco, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Sagredo, Giovanni Francesco,
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The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.When Galileo saw the face of the Moon and the moons of Jupiter, Lipking writes, he had to picture a cosmos that could account for them. Kepler thought his geometry could open a window into the mind of God. Francis Bacon's natural history envisioned an order of things that would replace the illusions of language with solid evidence and transform notions of life and death. Descartes designed a hypothetical "Book of Nature" to explain how everything in the universe was constructed. Thomas Browne reconceived the boundaries of truth and error. Robert Hooke, like Leonardo, was both researcher and artist; his schemes illuminate the microscopic and the macrocosmic. And when Isaac Newton imagined nature as a coherent and comprehensive mathematical system, he redefined the goals of science and the meaning of genius.What Galileo Saw bridges the divide between science and art; it brings together Galileo and Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare. Lipking enters the minds and the workshops where the Scientific Revolution was fashioned, drawing on art, literature, and the history of science to reimagine how perceptions about the world and human life could change so drastically, and change forever.
Science --- Literature and science --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Influence. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée
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William A. Wallace demonstrates the importance of two early manuscripts of Galileo dismissed by earlier researchers as juvenile exercises. Analyzing all his scientific writings from the late 1580s to 1610 and from 1610 to 1640, this book illuminates both the sources and the evolution of Galileo's thought.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Galileo is known as a pioneer of science - especially of mechanics and astronomy - but far less attention has been paid to his work on the senses generally, and more specifically on vision. In this book, two experts on the history of science look at the novel ways in which Galileo looked at the heavens through his telescope, and, in the process, emphasised the importance of contrast phenomena and visual resolution for all observations. He also described the senses and perception interms that found an echo in doctrines advanced by nineteenth century sensory physiologists. In a fascinating and a
Visual perception --- Eye --- Science. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- Visual system --- Face --- Photoreceptors --- Vision --- Optics, Psychological --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- History. --- Movements --- Research --- Psychological aspects --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée
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In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author documents Kircher’s often intuitive work in many areas, including translating the hieroglyphs, developing sundials, and inventing the magic lantern, and explains how Kircher was a forerunner of Darwin in suggesting that animal species evolve. Galileo’s work on scales, telescopes, and sun spots is mapped and discussed, and care is taken to place his discoveries within their cultural environment. While Galileo is without doubt the “winner” in the comparison with Kircher, the latter achieved extraordinary insights by unconventional means. For all Galileo’s fine work, the author believes that scientists do need to regain the power of dreaming, vindicating Kirchner’s view.
Astronomy -- History. --- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. --- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. --- Religion and science -- Italy -- History -- 17th century. --- Science -- History. --- Science --- Astronomy --- Religion and science --- History. --- History --- Kircher, Athanasius, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée --- Kircherus, Athanasius, --- Kircher, Atanasio, --- Chircher, Atanasio, --- Kirchere, Athanase, --- Kirker, Athanase, --- Astronomy. --- Science (General). --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Popular Science, general. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Astrophysics. --- Popular works. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics
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This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are 'world[s] / Of destined habitation'. Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.
Literature and science --- Cosmology in literature. --- History --- Milton, John, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée --- Rubinstein, Anton, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Knowledge --- Science. --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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