What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.
2014
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Title
What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.
Published
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Description
xvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Associated name
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
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.
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.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
Call number
PR149.S4 L56 2014