[PDF.44pz] Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

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 | #2295061 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-01-31 |  2008-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.38 x.85 x6.02l,.90 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Galileo's Glassworks|By The Prof.|Not meant for those who want a systematic exposition of the technical development of the telescope. It is, however, a fascinating, detailed, deeply researched and novel approach to the history of the telescope. Conjures up and immerses the reader in the the complex zeitgeist of the 16th and early 17th centuries from which emerged the telescope.|From Publishers Weekly|Galileo is mistakenly believed by many to have invented the telescope—a misconception that the scientist did little to correct in his own time. Rather, as Reeves, an associate professor of comp lit at Princeton, reminds readers in re

The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with the instrument. This b...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror   |  Eileen Reeves. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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