What Galileo saw imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.

Author/creator Lipking, Lawrence, 1934-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014017110
ISBN9780801452970 (cloth : alk. paper)