Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1961. Includes bibliographical references (p.122) and index.
Contents:
Index. Introduction : Galileo ... who was he? -- Observer of nature -- Inventor of experiments -- Builder of instruments -- Teacher -- Defender of thoughts -- appendix. Student in Pisa -- Aristotle's authority -- Swinging lamps and pendulums -- From medicine to mathematics -- 2. The young teacher -- Archimedes and the hydrostatic balance -- Teacher in Pisa -- De motu (on motion) -- Falling bodies -- From Pisa to Padua -- 3. Good times -- A Venetian nobleman : Sagredo -- The experimental school of medicine in Padua -- Public and private teaching -- Galileo's geometric and military compass -- Magnets -- An unfortunate trip -- 4. The telescope -- Copernicus -- The sun at the center of the universe -- Kepler -- News of a telescope -- Galileo presents his telescope to the doge -- 5. The universe through a telescope -- New aspects of the moon -- Jupiter's satellites -- The phases of Venus -- Sunspots -- The Aristotelian universe is shaken -- Galileo and Kepler -- 6. Florence and Rome -- Sagredo's prophesy -- Triumph in Rome -- The inquisition -- Polemic writings -- The laws of nature and the scriptures -- The decree against the Copernican doctrine -- The assayer -- 7. Galileo and Urban VIII -- The dialogue -- The summons to Rome -- The trial -- The sentence -- 8. Father and daughter -- Galileo at home -- Sister Maria Celeste -- Death of a daughter -- 9. The last years -- Blindness -- Milton's visit -- Death -- 10. Galileo's physics -- The law of inertia -- More about falling bodies -- The motion of projectiles -- Faith in the laws of nature -- "This vast and most excellent science" -- appendix. The little balance and anote on it -- Bibliography -- Index.
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