Galileo (ePub)
Watcher of the Skies
(Sprache: Englisch)
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.
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David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.
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David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Wootton
- 2010, 1. Auflage, 354 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300170068
- ISBN-13: 9780300170061
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2010
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Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Astronautics and Astronomy category "In a quiverful of publications, David Wootton has made it his mission to help us view the Renaissance thought-world in new ways, and this elegant biography does not disappoint. The Galileo he portrays is no saint, either Catholic or secular, but is the more fascinating for revealing the great scientist's selfishness, anxiety and political ineptitude, together with all the intellectual blind alleys taken in struggles towards his eventual goal. Wootton vividly contrasts the religious and political claustrophobia of seventeenth-century Italy with the abstract beauty of the mathematics and geometry which so delighted his subject. This is an absorbing study worthy of the life-story it tells.” —Diarmaid MacCulloch
"Wootton’s Galileo is many things: private unbeliever, reluctant empiricist and impetuous thinker. This brilliant book traces Galileo’s difficult negotiations of academic jealousies, court politics and ecclesiastical scrutiny, allows us to imagine the excitement and danger of looking through a telescope in Venice, and gives fresh insights into the mind and the man as father and son. A remarkable achievement." —Justin Champion
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