2010, ISBN: 0199583528

[EAN: 9780199583522], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press], Jacket, XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANR… More...

[EAN: 9780199583522], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford University Press], Jacket, XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Buchschnitt minimalst angeschmutzt, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar, inklusive zwei Rezensionen des Buches (TLS & The New York Times Book Review) / binding minimally soiled, otherwise a very good copy, including two reviews of the book (TLS & The New York Times Book Review). - At the age of 45, with the enthusiastic reception of his astronomical observations, published as The Starry Messenger, Galileo the cultivated man of learning, bold but disciplined in thought and cautious in publication, underwent a kind of epiphany. Success, it seems, went to his head. Growing increasingly outspoken and reckless, alienating friends and influential patrons, his political compass awry, he took on the character of the knights of old whose adventures he delighted in reading, and rode full tilt into the windmill of the Inquisition. John Heilbron reveals Galileo within the context of late Renaissance Italy, with all its intellectual vivacity. We encounter Galileo in the literary academies of Florence, among the girls of Venice and the savants of Padua, and in the courts of popes and princes. We meet Galileo the musician, literary critic, philosopher, mathematician, gadgeteer, and discoverer; a man of wit and intellect, and also just a man—fond of wine and women, vain, ambitious, arrogant, companionable, devoted to his friends and unforgiving to his enemies. / CONTENTS Preface Picture Acknowledgements 1 A Florentine Education 1.1 UPBRINGING 1.2 GAP YEARS 1.3 CHARACTER ANALYSIS 2 A Tuscan Archimedes 2.1 HELL AND MATHEMATICS 2.2 BARYCENTRIC EXERCISES 2.3 DE MOTU 2.4 GALILEO AT 25 3 Life in the Serenissima 3.1 SETTLING IN 3.2 STEADY STATE 4 Galilean Science 4.1 RELUCTANT ASTRONOMER 4.2 MOVER AND SHAKER 5 Calculated Risks 5.1 STARRY MESSAGE 5.2 CELESTIAL MESSENGER 5.3 MORE RABBITS FROM THE HAT 5.4 FAMILY AFFAIRS AND FORMER FRIENDS 6 Miscalculated Risks 6.1 FREELANCE EXEGETES 6.2 POETICAL INTERLUDE 6.3 ILL OMENS 7 Vainglory 7.1 THE POPE 7.2 THE KNIGHT 7.3 THE WINDMILL 7.4 THE TILT 8 End Games 8.1 DRAMATIS PERSONAE 8.2 WINDING UP 8.3 LAST DAYS 8.4 THE END OF THE AFFAIR? Genealogy Glossary of Names Notes Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780199583522 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1013 Originalhardcover with dust jacket., Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780199583522

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Oxford University Press], Octavo. XIV, 508 pages. With several illustrations (also in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's … More...

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Oxford University Press], Octavo. XIV, 508 pages. With several illustrations (also in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, as new condition. Includes for example the following essays: A Florentine Education / Gap years / A Tuscan Archimedes / Life in the Serenissima / Hell an Mathematics / Barycentric Exercises / De Motu / Galileo at 25 / Galilean Science / Poetical Interlude / The Pope / Dramatis Personae / Last Days / Glossary of NAmes etc. Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[3] – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments. Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. While under house arrest, he wrote one of his best-known works, Two New Sciences, in which he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials. He has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of scientific method", and the "father of science". (Wikipe, IE, [SC: 0.00], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 1200g], [PU: Oxford], Banküberweisung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

2010, ISBN: 9780199583522

XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Traditi… More...

XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Buchschnitt minimalst angeschmutzt, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar, inklusive zwei Rezensionen des Buches (TLS & The New York Times Book Review) / binding minimally soiled, otherwise a very good copy, including two reviews of the book (TLS & The New York Times Book Review). - At the age of 45, with the enthusiastic reception of his astronomical observations, published as The Starry Messenger, Galileo the cultivated man of learning, bold but disciplined in thought and cautious in publication, underwent a kind of epiphany. Success, it seems, went to his head. Growing increasingly outspoken and reckless, alienating friends and influential patrons, his political compass awry, he took on the character of the knights of old whose adventures he delighted in reading, and rode full tilt into the windmill of the Inquisition. John Heilbron reveals Galileo within the context of late Renaissance Italy, with all its intellectual vivacity. We encounter Galileo in the literary academies of Florence, among the girls of Venice and the savants of Padua, and in the courts of popes and princes. We meet Galileo the musician, literary critic, philosopher, mathematician, gadgeteer, and discoverer; a man of wit and intellect, and also just a manfond of wine and women, vain, ambitious, arrogant, companionable, devoted to his friends and unforgiving to his enemies. / CONTENTS Preface Picture Acknowledgements 1 A Florentine Education 1.1 UPBRINGING 1.2 GAP YEARS 1.3 CHARACTER ANALYSIS 2 A Tuscan Archimedes 2.1 HELL AND MATHEMATICS 2.2 BARYCENTRIC EXERCISES 2.3 DE MOTU 2.4 GALILEO AT 25 3 Life in the Serenissima 3.1 SETTLING IN 3.2 STEADY STATE 4 Galilean Science 4.1 RELUCTANT ASTRONOMER 4.2 MOVER AND SHAKER 5 Calculated Risks 5.1 STARRY MESSAGE 5.2 CELESTIAL MESSENGER 5.3 MORE RABBITS FROM THE HAT 5.4 FAMILY AFFAIRS AND FORMER FRIENDS 6 Miscalculated Risks 6.1 FREELANCE EXEGETES 6.2 POETICAL INTERLUDE 6.3 ILL OMENS 7 Vainglory 7.1 THE POPE 7.2 THE KNIGHT 7.3 THE WINDMILL 7.4 THE TILT 8 End Games 8.1 DRAMATIS PERSONAE 8.2 WINDING UP 8.3 LAST DAYS 8.4 THE END OF THE AFFAIR? Genealogy Glossary of Names Notes Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780199583522 Versand D: 5,50 EUR , [PU:Oxford University Press,]<

2010, ISBN: 9780199583522

XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Traditi… More...

XIV, 508 p.: Ill. Originalhardcover with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Buchschnitt minimalst angeschmutzt, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar, inklusive zwei Rezensionen des Buches (TLS & The New York Times Book Review) / binding minimally soiled, otherwise a very good copy, including two reviews of the book (TLS & The New York Times Book Review). - At the age of 45, with the enthusiastic reception of his astronomical observations, published as The Starry Messenger, Galileo the cultivated man of learning, bold but disciplined in thought and cautious in publication, underwent a kind of epiphany. Success, it seems, went to his head. Growing increasingly outspoken and reckless, alienating friends and influential patrons, his political compass awry, he took on the character of the knights of old whose adventures he delighted in reading, and rode full tilt into the windmill of the Inquisition. John Heilbron reveals Galileo within the context of late Renaissance Italy, with all its intellectual vivacity. We encounter Galileo in the literary academies of Florence, among the girls of Venice and the savants of Padua, and in the courts of popes and princes. We meet Galileo the musician, literary critic, philosopher, mathematician, gadgeteer, and discoverer; a man of wit and intellect, and also just a manfond of wine and women, vain, ambitious, arrogant, companionable, devoted to his friends and unforgiving to his enemies. / CONTENTS Preface Picture Acknowledgements 1 A Florentine Education 1.1 UPBRINGING 1.2 GAP YEARS 1.3 CHARACTER ANALYSIS 2 A Tuscan Archimedes 2.1 HELL AND MATHEMATICS 2.2 BARYCENTRIC EXERCISES 2.3 DE MOTU 2.4 GALILEO AT 25 3 Life in the Serenissima 3.1 SETTLING IN 3.2 STEADY STATE 4 Galilean Science 4.1 RELUCTANT ASTRONOMER 4.2 MOVER AND SHAKER 5 Calculated Risks 5.1 STARRY MESSAGE 5.2 CELESTIAL MESSENGER 5.3 MORE RABBITS FROM THE HAT 5.4 FAMILY AFFAIRS AND FORMER FRIENDS 6 Miscalculated Risks 6.1 FREELANCE EXEGETES 6.2 POETICAL INTERLUDE 6.3 ILL OMENS 7 Vainglory 7.1 THE POPE 7.2 THE KNIGHT 7.3 THE WINDMILL 7.4 THE TILT 8 End Games 8.1 DRAMATIS PERSONAE 8.2 WINDING UP 8.3 LAST DAYS 8.4 THE END OF THE AFFAIR? Genealogy Glossary of Names Notes Works Cited Index. ISBN 9780199583522 Versand D: 5,50 EUR, [PU:Oxford University Press,]<