Galileo Galilei — When the World Stood Still

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Næss, Atle (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Science.; History.; Physics.; Popular works.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Physics, general.; Popular Science, general.; Science, general.

"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ...I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies." Galileo Galilei in Rome, 22 June 1633, before the men of the Inquisition. In the sma...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue: A journey to Rome
• The musician's son
• A gifted young Tuscan
• To Rome and the Jesuits
• A Surveyor of Inferno
• The spheres from the tower
• From Pisa to Padua
• Signs in the sky
• De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
• Lecturer and designer
• A professor's commitments
• Modern physics is born
• A new star in an unchanging sky?- Drawing close to a court
• The balls fall into place
• The Roman style
• The tube with the long perspective
• A new world
• Jupiter's sons
• Johann Kepler, Imperial Mathematician
• Several signs in the sky
• Friendship and power
• A dispute about objects that float in water
• Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon!- The letter to Castelli
• "How to go to heaven, not how the heavens go"
• Foolish and absurd in philosophy, formally heretical
• The hammer of the heretics
• Deaths and omens
• Comets portend disaster
• Weighing the words of others on gold-scales
• A marvellous combination of circumstances
• War and heresy
• European power struggle and Roman nephews
• The old and the new
• "An advantageous decree"
• Two wise men - and a third
• The Inquisition's chambers
• Diplomacy in the time of the plague
• An order from the top
• "Nor further to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatsoever"
• Convinced with reasons
• "I, Galileo Galilei"
• Eternity
• A death and two new sciences
• The meeting with infinity
• "That universe ... is not any greater than the space I occupy"
• Epilogue
• Postscript
• Appendix
• Sources
• Name Index
• References.