What Galileo Saw : Imagining the Scientific Revolution.
Lipking, Lawrence.
What Galileo Saw : Imagining the Scientific Revolution. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (333 pages)
WHAT GALILEO SAW -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing a Revolution -- 2. What Galileo Saw: Two Fables of Sound and Seeing -- 3. Kepler's Progress: Imagining the Future -- 4. The Poetry of the World: A Natural History of Poetics -- 5. "Look There, Look There!" Imagining Life in King Lear -- 6. The Dream of Descartes: The Book of Nature and the Infinite I AM -- 7. A History of Error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- 8. The Century of Genius (1): Measuring Up -- 9. The Century of Genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the System of the World -- 10. Revolution and Its Discontents: The Skeptical Challenge -- Appendix 1. Galileo: The Fable of Sound -- Appendix 2. Descartes's Three Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, emphasizing the role that imagination played in the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.
9780801454851
Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642 -- Influence.
Literature and science -- History -- 17th century.
Science -- History -- 17th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Electronic books.
PR149
001.09/032
What Galileo Saw : Imagining the Scientific Revolution. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (333 pages)
WHAT GALILEO SAW -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing a Revolution -- 2. What Galileo Saw: Two Fables of Sound and Seeing -- 3. Kepler's Progress: Imagining the Future -- 4. The Poetry of the World: A Natural History of Poetics -- 5. "Look There, Look There!" Imagining Life in King Lear -- 6. The Dream of Descartes: The Book of Nature and the Infinite I AM -- 7. A History of Error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- 8. The Century of Genius (1): Measuring Up -- 9. The Century of Genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the System of the World -- 10. Revolution and Its Discontents: The Skeptical Challenge -- Appendix 1. Galileo: The Fable of Sound -- Appendix 2. Descartes's Three Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, emphasizing the role that imagination played in the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.
9780801454851
Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642 -- Influence.
Literature and science -- History -- 17th century.
Science -- History -- 17th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Electronic books.
PR149
001.09/032