Galileo's glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / Eileen Reeves.

By:

Reeves, Eileen Adair [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674042636
0674042638

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Galileo's glassworks.DDC classification:

522/.2092 22

LOC classification:

QB85.8 .R44 2008eb

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UB 2592

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Contents:

The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend.

Summary: Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-218) and index.

The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend.

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Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period.

In English.

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