| Galileo: Decisive Innovator Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sharratt, Michael (Author), Knight, David (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0521566711 ISBN-13: 9780521566711 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 1996 Annotation: In this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharrat examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness and penetration of Galileo Galilei. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to understand a crucial stage of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was a path-breaker for the newly invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language and a quite brilliant popularizer of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at least been officially and handsomely recognized by the church's 'rehabilitation' of the Inquisition's most famous victim, fully discussed in the last chapter. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to non-scientists and his mistakes are not overlooked. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator- one of the greatest ever known. Click for more in this series: Cambridge Science Biographies Series |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology - Science | History - Science | Physics - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96176292 |
| Series: Cambridge Science Biographies Series |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.04" W x 8.97" L (0.92 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this entertaining and authoritative biography, first published in 1994, Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness and penetrating intelligence of Galileo Galilei. To follow Galileo's career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to understand a crucial stage of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was a pathbreaker for the newly-invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language and a quite brilliant popularizer of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at last been officially and handsomely recognized by the Church's "rehabilitation" of the Inquisition's most famous victim, fully discussed in the last chapter. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to nonscientists and his mistakes are not overlooked. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator--one of the greatest ever known. |
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