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The Resource Galileo and the scientific revolution, Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini

Galileo and the scientific revolution, Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini

Label
Galileo and the scientific revolution
Title
Galileo and the scientific revolution
Statement of responsibility
Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Fermi, Laura
Dewey number
  • 520/.92
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QB36.G2
LC item number
F43 2003
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Bernardini, Gilberto
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Galilei, Galileo
  • Astronomers
Target audience
adult
Label
Galileo and the scientific revolution, Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1961
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p.122) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Student in Pisa
  • Aristotle's authority
  • Swinging lamps and pendulums
  • From medicine to mathematics
  • 2.
  • Young teacher
  • Archimedes and the hydrostatic balance
  • Teacher in Pisa
  • De motu (on motion)
  • Falling bodies
  • Acknowledgments
  • From Pisa to Padua
  • 3.
  • Good times
  • A Venetian nobleman : Sagredo
  • Experimental school of medicine in Padua
  • Public and private teaching
  • Galileo's geometric and military compass
  • Magnets
  • An unfortunate trip
  • 4.
  • Introduction : Galileo ... who was he?
  • Telescope
  • Copernicus
  • Sun at the center of the universe
  • Kepler
  • News of a telescope
  • Galileo presents his telescope to the doge
  • 5.
  • Universe through a telescope
  • New aspects of the moon
  • Jupiter's satellites
  • Observer of nature
  • Phases of Venus
  • Sunspots
  • Aristotelian universe is shaken
  • Galileo and Kepler
  • 6.
  • Florence and Rome
  • Sagredo's prophesy
  • Triumph in Rome
  • Inquisition
  • Polemic writings
  • Inventor of experiments
  • Laws of nature and the scriptures
  • Decree against the Copernican doctrine
  • Assayer
  • 7.
  • Galileo and Urban VIII
  • Dialogue
  • Summons to Rome
  • Trial
  • Sentence
  • 8.
  • Builder of instruments
  • Father and daughter
  • Galileo at home
  • Sister Maria Celeste
  • Death of a daughter
  • 9.
  • Last years
  • Blindness
  • Milton's visit
  • Death
  • 10.
  • Teacher
  • Galileo's physics
  • Law of inertia
  • More about falling bodies
  • Motion of projectiles
  • Faith in the laws of nature
  • "This vast and most excellent science"
  • appendix.
  • Little balance and anote on it
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Defender of thoughts
  • 1.
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
vi, 128 pages
Isbn
9780486432267
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2003050231
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocm52086307
  • (Sirsi) o52086307
  • (OCoLC)52086307
Label
Galileo and the scientific revolution, Laura Fermi and Gilberto Bernardini
Publication
Note
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1961
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p.122) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Student in Pisa
  • Aristotle's authority
  • Swinging lamps and pendulums
  • From medicine to mathematics
  • 2.
  • Young teacher
  • Archimedes and the hydrostatic balance
  • Teacher in Pisa
  • De motu (on motion)
  • Falling bodies
  • Acknowledgments
  • From Pisa to Padua
  • 3.
  • Good times
  • A Venetian nobleman : Sagredo
  • Experimental school of medicine in Padua
  • Public and private teaching
  • Galileo's geometric and military compass
  • Magnets
  • An unfortunate trip
  • 4.
  • Introduction : Galileo ... who was he?
  • Telescope
  • Copernicus
  • Sun at the center of the universe
  • Kepler
  • News of a telescope
  • Galileo presents his telescope to the doge
  • 5.
  • Universe through a telescope
  • New aspects of the moon
  • Jupiter's satellites
  • Observer of nature
  • Phases of Venus
  • Sunspots
  • Aristotelian universe is shaken
  • Galileo and Kepler
  • 6.
  • Florence and Rome
  • Sagredo's prophesy
  • Triumph in Rome
  • Inquisition
  • Polemic writings
  • Inventor of experiments
  • Laws of nature and the scriptures
  • Decree against the Copernican doctrine
  • Assayer
  • 7.
  • Galileo and Urban VIII
  • Dialogue
  • Summons to Rome
  • Trial
  • Sentence
  • 8.
  • Builder of instruments
  • Father and daughter
  • Galileo at home
  • Sister Maria Celeste
  • Death of a daughter
  • 9.
  • Last years
  • Blindness
  • Milton's visit
  • Death
  • 10.
  • Teacher
  • Galileo's physics
  • Law of inertia
  • More about falling bodies
  • Motion of projectiles
  • Faith in the laws of nature
  • "This vast and most excellent science"
  • appendix.
  • Little balance and anote on it
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Defender of thoughts
  • 1.
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
vi, 128 pages
Isbn
9780486432267
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Lccn
2003050231
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocm52086307
  • (Sirsi) o52086307
  • (OCoLC)52086307

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