Galileo Galilei At the Threshold of the Scientific Age /

• Main Author: Osterhage, Wolfgang W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Europe-History.; Philosophy and science.; History.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; European History.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.

This new scientific biography of Galileo explores the influences on, and of, his exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond. Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his conflict with the church establishment of his ti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Time and Space
• Early Years (1564-1588)
• Padova
• Florence
• Cosmological Excursion
• Florence revisited
• Final Years
• Conclusions. .