Lipking, Lawrence. What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution

Folger bibliographic ID: 339472
Folger call number: PR149.S4 L56 2014
Folger holdings ID: 491588

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index

Contents

Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams

Extended title: What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Literature and science Europe Science

author: Lipking, Lawrence
subject: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642