Galileo And The Telescope
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Galileo S Telescope
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Author : Massimo Bucciantini
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Galileo S Telescope written by Massimo Bucciantini and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with Science categories.
An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In transcending the limits of human vision, the telescope transformed humanity’s view of itself and knowledge of the cosmos. Galileo plays a leading—but by no means solo—part in this riveting tale. He shares the stage with mathematicians, astronomers, and theologians from Paolo Sarpi to Johannes Kepler and Cardinal Bellarmine, sovereigns such as Rudolph II and James I, as well as craftsmen, courtiers, poets, and painters. Starting in the Netherlands, where a spectacle-maker created a spyglass with the modest magnifying power of three, the telescope spread like technological wildfire to Venice, Rome, Prague, Paris, London, and ultimately India and China. Galileo’s celestial discoveries—hundreds of stars previously invisible to the naked eye, lunar mountains, and moons orbiting Jupiter—were announced to the world in his revolutionary treatise Sidereus Nuncius. Combining science, politics, religion, and the arts, Galileo’s Telescope rewrites the early history of a world-shattering innovation whose visual power ultimately came to embody meanings far beyond the science of the stars. Praise for Galileo’s Telescope “One of the most fascinating stories in the history of science.” —Mark Archer, The Wall Street Journal “In broad outline, the story of Galileo and the first use of a telescope in astronomy is well known. Bucciantini, Camerota, and Giudice take a new look at this seminal event by focusing on how the news spread across Europe and how it was received. Their well-written narrative examines the central issues using papers, paintings, letters, and other contemporary documents . . . After four centuries [Galileo’s] reputation has been thoroughly vindicated.” —D. E. Hogg, Choice
Galileo And The Telescope
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Author : Yoming S. Lin
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2011-08-15
Galileo And The Telescope written by Yoming S. Lin and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Shares biographical and historical information about Galileo Galilei, the man and his inventions, and includes fact sheets and a timeline.
Galileo S Telescope
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Author : Giorgio Strano
language : en
Publisher: Giunti Editore
Release Date : 2008
Galileo S Telescope written by Giorgio Strano and has been published by Giunti Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
In July 1609, Galileo Galilei received news that a Dutch optician had invented a device that allowed people to see distant objects as clearly as if they were nearby. As soon as he discovered the technical and mechanical details of the device, he dedicated himself to perfecting the instrument. Urged on by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens. His research revealed unexpected features and behaviours of the known planets and stars, as well as adding new heavenly bodies to the Ptolemaic Cosmos. Galileo's Telescope is published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo's remarkable discoveries, and offers readers an unrivalled glimpse into the instrument that changed the world.
Galileo S Telescope
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Author : Gerry Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-12
Galileo S Telescope written by Gerry Bailey and has been published by Crabtree Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Digby and his sister Hannah stumble across Galileo's telescope in Mr. Rummage's flea market stall. This book relates the biography of astronomer Galileo in a charming fictional storyline. Wonderful illustrations help tell the story of Galileo's life and historic discoveries.
Galileo And 400 Years Of Telescopic Astronomy
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Author : Peter Grego
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-09-09
Galileo And 400 Years Of Telescopic Astronomy written by Peter Grego and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-09 with Science categories.
In 1609 Galileo first used his telescope to kick start the science of observational astronomy - an event that proved to be of enormous historic, scientific, and cultural importance. Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy will feature the life and achievements of Galileo, around which has pivoted the story of four centuries of telescopic astronomy. The book will detail how astronomy has progressed through four centuries and contain glimpses of future space research and astronomy goals. Uniquely, interwoven with the text will be a range of practical projects for backyard astronomers in which to participate, projects that serve to illustrate many of Galileo's scientific discoveries.
Galileo Jupiter S Moons And The Telescope
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Author : Eileen S. Coates
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2018-12-15
Galileo Jupiter S Moons And The Telescope written by Eileen S. Coates and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Galileo has been referred to as the father of modern science. Even though he didn't invent the very first telescope, he did invent the first telescope that could see into space. This book features Galileo's process of altering the telescope, as well as the how STEM concepts helped him make his discoveries. Readers will learn about Galileo's early life and how his discoveries have affected the way we understand Earth's place in the solar system. Full-color photographs and informative fact boxes supplement the main text.
Galileo S Instruments Of Credit
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Author : Mario Biagioli
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-06-01
Galileo S Instruments Of Credit written by Mario Biagioli and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with Science categories.
In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made a series of astronomical discoveries that reshaped the debate over the physical nature of the heavens: he deeply modified the practices and status of astronomy with the introduction of the telescope and pictorial evidence, proposed a radical reconfiguration of the relationship between theology and astronomy, and transformed himself from university mathematician into court philosopher. Galileo's Instruments of Credit proposes radical new interpretations of several key episodes of Galileo's career, including his early telescopic discoveries of 1610, the dispute over sunspots, and the conflict with the Holy Office over the relationship between Copernicanism and Scripture. Galileo's tactics during this time shifted as rapidly as his circumstances, argues Mario Biagioli, and the pace of these changes forced him to respond swiftly to the opportunities and risks posed by unforeseen inventions, further discoveries, and the interventions of his opponents. Focusing on the aspects of Galileo's scientific life that extend beyond the framework of court culture and patronage, Biagioli offers a revisionist account of the different systems of exchanges, communication, and credibility at work in various phases of Galileo's career. Galileo's Instruments of Credit will find grateful readers among scholars of science studies, historical epistemology, visual studies, Galilean science, and late Renaissance astronomy.
The Origins Of The Telescope
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Author : Albert Van Helden
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Origins Of The Telescope written by Albert Van Helden and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Science categories.
The origins of the telescope have been discussed and debated since shortly after the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride have led local dignitaries, popular writers, and numerous scholars to search the archives and to construct sharply divergent histories. Did the honor of the invention belong to the Dutch, to the Italians, to the English, or to the Spanish? And if the city of Middelburg in the Netherlands was, in fact, the cradle of the instrument, was the "true inventor" Hans Lipperhey or his rival Zacharias Jansen? Or was the instrument there before anyone knew it? Over the past several decades, a group of historians and scientists have sought out new documents, re-examined familiar ones, and tested early lenses and telescopes. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Middelburg in September 2008 to mark 400 years of the telescope. The essays in it, taken as a whole, present a new and convincing account of the origins of the instrument that changed mankind's vision of the universe.
Galileo S Glassworks
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Author : Eileen Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Galileo S Glassworks written by Eileen Reeves and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Science categories.
The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's creation in The Hague in 1608 and Galileo's alleged acquaintance with such news ten months later. In an inquiry into scientific and cultural history, Eileen Reeves explores two fundamental questions of intellectual accountability: what did Galileo know of the invention of the telescope, and when did he know it? The record suggests that Galileo, like several of his peers, initially misunderstood the basic design of the telescope. In seeking to explain the gap between the telescope's emergence and the alleged date of the astronomer's acquaintance with it, Reeves explores how and why information about the telescope was transmitted, suppressed, or misconstrued in the process. Her revised version of events, rejecting the usual explanations of silence and idleness, is a revealing account of the role that misprision, error, and preconception play in the advancement of science. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in a critical period and, more generally, shows how documents typically outside the scope of early modern natural philosophy--medieval romances, travel literature, and idle speculations--relate to two crucial events in the history of science.
The Sidereal Messenger Of Galileo Galilei
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Author : Galileo Galilei
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Sidereal Messenger Of Galileo Galilei written by Galileo Galilei and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Astronomy categories.