Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300197292 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Could It Be - A Book About Galileo An Academic PAGE TURNER ??? - Five Stars Richard of Connecticut In the last ten centuries only four massive intellectuals have dominated science, da Vinci, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Einstein, four in a thousand years. This fabulous book entitled simply Galileo fooled me completely when I picked it up. First the small font which I always found annoying, and then it's published by the Yale University Press which means I've got myself an academic writer and publisher. This is normally a combinati. "Informative and insightful, but in need of better editing" according to Reflect. This biography offers several interesting insights and theories about Galileo. While there may be an overabundance of detail, I believe it is better to have too much than too little. The main problem is the writing, which is sometimes a bit awkward. A good editor would have helped make this book more enjoyably readable.. "Five Stars" according to Alejandro Pisanty. Depth and delight to read. No wonder it's a classic.
It draws extensively on Galileo's voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored & sly.. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, & author, this book places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important & controversial figures in the history of science
"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. This is an absorbing study worthy of the life-story it tells.”—Diarmaid MacCulloch. 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