TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipking,Lawrence
TI  - What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
SN  - 9780801454851
AV  - PR149 
U1  - 001.09/032 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642 -- Influence
KW  - Literature and science -- History -- 17th century
KW  - Science -- History -- 17th century
KW  - Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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