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| #1008327 in Books | 2015-03-23 | Original language:Italian | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x1.10 x6.40l,.0 | File type: PDF | 352 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The First Great Scientific Revolution|By Rob Hardy|As I write this, we have in the past few days gotten pictures of Pluto from the flyby of the New Horizons satellite. They are wonderful, but by now such detailed pictures of distant worlds are fairly commonplace. We used to explore space merely with earth-bound telescopes, and there was a time when even the telescope was a ne||Makes available to the general reader one of the most fascinating stories in the history of science. (Mark Archer Wall Street Journal 2015-04-03)
A rich and complex story of how the Galilean telescope emerged from the Dutch spyglass. In Ga
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In transcending the limits of human vision, the telescope transformed humanity’s view of itself and knowledge of the cosmos.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Galileo's Telescope: A European Story | Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.