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Galileo by John L. Heilbron is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Galileo about?

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a'hurried little masterpiece'in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth - the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the greatest moments in the history of science. It was also a point of change in the life of Galileo himself, propelling him from professor to prophet. But this is not the biography of a mathematician. Certainly he spent the first half of his career as a professor of mathematics and has been called'the divine mathematician'. Yet he was no more (or less) a mathematician than he was a musician, artist, writer, philosopher, or gadgeteer. This fresh lively new biography of the'father of science'paints a rounded picture of Galileo, and places him firmly within the rich texture of late Renaissance Florence, Pisa, and Padua, amid debates on the merits of Ariosto and Tasso, and the geometry of Dante's Inferno - debate

Who reads Galileo?

Author

John L. Heilbron

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191612954

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Astronomy

Rating

3.63 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14