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What Galileo Saw : Imagining the Scientific Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (333 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454851
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What Galileo SawDDC classification:
  • 001.09/032
LOC classification:
  • PR149
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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