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02919aam a2200301 i 4500 001 F6AD50742EC211EA8486474897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200104012218 008 181030t20192019njua b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2019939551 020 $a 069117489X 020 $a 9780691174891 035 $a (OCoLC)1059260162 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d QGJ $d TOH $d OCLCO $d QGJ $d CLE $d BNG $d GZM $d IQU $d OCLCF $d IUL $d LML $d YDXIT $d NYP $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a fre $a ita $a lat $a fre $h fre $h lat $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 245 00 $a On the life of Galileo : $b Viviani's historical account & other early biographies / $c edited, translated, and annotated by Stefano Gattei. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey ; $b Princeton University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a lxviii, 348 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 26 cm. 520 $a The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's life, this unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy. Here in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani's Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani's text is accompanied by his "Letter to Prince Leopold de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks" (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo's later works, and the long inscriptions on the facade of Viviani's Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the "Adulatio perniciosa," a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini - who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo's prosecutor - as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers. Featuring the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo's pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-338) and index. 600 10 $a Galilei, Galileo, $d 1564-1642. 650 0 $a Astronomers $z Italy $v Biography. 700 1 $a Gattei, Stefano, $e annotator. $e translator, $e annotator. 941 $a 1 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20200104012839.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F6AD50742EC211EA8486474897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search