Author : Jordi Bayarri
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 9781728480657
"Galileo Galilei believed in the power of scientific observation over traditional ideas. His close study of the night sky helped support the theory that planets move around the sun"--
Author : Jordi Bayarri Dolz
Publisher : Graphic Universe TM
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728480671
Galileo Galilei believed in the power of scientific observation over traditional ideas. His close study of the night sky helped support the theory that planets move around the sun. His defiant personality made him powerful enemies. This graphic biography covers Galilei's life from his early work with projectiles to his revolutionary look at the cosmos. It also depicts the backlash to his bold ideas and his trial under the Inquisition.
Author : Galileo
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 037575766X
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.
Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1989-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226279030
"Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei in March 1610. It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the imperfect and mountainous Moon, the hundreds of stars that were unable to be seen in either the Milky Way or certain constellations with the naked eye, and the Medicean Stars that appeared to be circling Jupiter.[1] The Latin word nuncius was typically used during this time period to denote messenger; however, albeit less frequently, it was also interpreted as message. While the title Sidereus Nuncius is usually translated into English as Sidereal Messenger, many of Galileo's early drafts of the book and later related writings indicate that the intended purpose of the book was "simply to report the news about recent developments in astronomy, not to pass himself off solemnly as an ambassador from heaven."[2] Therefore, the correct English translation of the title is Sidereal Message (or often, Starry Message)."--Wikiped, Nov/2014.
Author : Copernicus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1804175714
Controversial at the time, Copernicus's discoveries led to the scientific revolution, and a greater understanding of our place in the universe. An accessible, abridged edition with a new introduction. Renaissance Natural philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus's pioneering discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system is one of the few identifiable moments in history that define the understanding of the nature of all things. His great work was the consequence of long observation and resulted in the first stage of the Scientific Revolution by correctly positing that the earth and other planets of the solar system revolved around the sun. Not only did this promote further study to understand the place of humanity in the world and the universe, it questioned the authority of the organised Christian Church in the West to be the keeper of fundamental truths. Ultimately this would lead to the Enlightenment, and the separation of religion, government and science. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
Author : William Henry Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465585273
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674171039
An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.
Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108591167
From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches flew through the dark of night to feast on the flesh of unbaptized infants, magicians conversed with angels or struck pacts with demons, and astrologers cast the horoscopes of royalty. Ground-breaking discoveries changed the way that people understood the universe while, in laboratories and coffee houses, philosophers discussed how to reconcile the scientific method with the veneration of God. This engaging, illustrated new study introduces readers to the vibrant history behind the emergence of the modern world.
Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Mechanics
ISBN :
Author : William J. Boerst
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 9781931798006
The Italian Galileo Galilei's experiments in force, motion, and acceleration provided the first quantifiable evidence of how the natural world works. He was also the first person to observe the planets and stars. and used his discoveries to promote the Sun-centered model of the universe. For this theory, he was arrested and convicted of heresy, and he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life.
