What Galileo saw imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.
| Author/creator | Lipking, Lawrence, 1934- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014. |
| Description | xvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014017110 |
| ISBN | 9780801452970 (cloth : alk. paper) |