Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Greco, Pietro (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: History.; Astronomy.; Physics.; Italy-History.; Popular Science in History.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Italy.

This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary, musical, and artistic talent - "The Tuscan A...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Galileo's birth
• Music at the time of Vincenzio Galilei
• Vincenzio in Florence
• Galileo in Pisa
• A Novice in Monastery
• Challenging Zarlino
• Return to Pisa
• Galileo meeting Ostilio Ricci
• A young unemployed Mathematician
• Galileo as a literary critic
• Galileo's first approach to a new method
• Teaching in Pisa
• Galileo as a literary critic and writer
• The best eighteen years of his age
• A Tuscan artist in Padua
• The Nova Star
• A Sidereus Nuncius
• An artists' warning
• New projects
• Galileo superstar
• Vicisti Galilaee!
• Galileo as a mathematician and philosopher in Florence
• Galileo's triumph in Rome
• Converting the Church
• A theory of culture
• You cannot prevent humankind from looking at the stars: the Copernican Letters
• They silence him
• Three comets and an Assayer
• The censored masterpiece
• Will to live
• Galileo's Dialogues and music
• Galileo's last years
• The Enigma.