What Galileo saw imagining the scientific revolution
Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: R...
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Ithaca, London
Cornell University Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-308 |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 314 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780801452970 978-0-8014-5297-0 |