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2010 1st Edtn DJ GALILEO By David Wootton Illus. Very Good Cosmology
by David Wootton
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Yale University Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 2010 1st Edition , DJ GALILEO By David Wootton David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian. He is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He has given the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (2008); the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford (2014); the Benedict Lectures at Boston University (2014); and the Besterman Lecture at Oxford University (2017). Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Published By: Yale University Press, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages 328 ISBN: 9780300125368 A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brilliant analyst of the elegantly mathematical workings of nature yet bungling and insensitive with his own family. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a new physics; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton reveals much that is new from Galileo's premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognised illegitimate daughter and, controversially, rejects the long-established orthodoxy which holds that Galileo was a good Catholic. Absolutely central to Galileo's significance and to science more broadly is the telescope, the potential of which Galileo was the first to grasp. Wootton makes clear that it totally revolutionised and galvanised scientific endeavor to discover new and previously unimagined facts. Drawing extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly, this is an original, arresting, and highly readable biography of a difficult, remarkable Renaissance genius. Mylar protected covers. SKU: BTETM0000072 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
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- 2010 1st Edtn DJ GALILEO By David Wootton Illus. Very Good Cosmology
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- David Wootton
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- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300125364
- ISBN 13
- 9780300125368
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 328
- Size
- octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229)
- Keywords
- Cosmology
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- 2.00 kg
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