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Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
Peter SísHe had turned the world upside down. In this amazing new book, Peter Sís employs the artist's lens to give us an extraordinary view of the life of Galileo Galilei.
Cinema: From the Silent Screen to the Hollywood Blockbuster
Graham TarrantWINE The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More Caro Feely ISBN : 978178372 6837 (ePub), 978178372682 0 (Mobi) 'Wine is sunlight, held together by water.' Galileo Galilei No other beverage has created the excitement and ...
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the ...
James M. LattisBetween Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and ...
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche
Galileo GalileiEt e manifefia che tal velocità a qualche altra minore può bauer la rende ama; proporziong , che la eorpulenza dell' acqua a quella dell' aria : e e e queftafarà la velocità di due fili radi : tal che veramente àfilo , e è dirittura conforme all' Wnia ...
Galileo: A Life
James Reston, Jr.A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
From Galileo to Newton
A. Rupert HallTracing the revolution in physics initiated by Galileo and culminating in Newton's achievements, this book surveys the work of Huygens, Leeuwenhoek, Boyle, Descartes, and others. 35 illustrations.
Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts
PreviewKaterina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux. GALILEO'S USE OF MEDIEVAL THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS Carla Rita Palmerino* Galileo occupies a prominent place in the literature on thought experiments. The short argument that Salviati uses, in the ...
Philosophisches Jahrbuch
More editionsDavoud Gharagozlou (Göttingen) W. Brandmüller und E. J. Greipl, Copernico Galilei e la Chiesa. Fine della Controversia (1820) gli Atti del Sant'Uffizio. - Pontificia Academia Scientiarum; Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze 1992, 498 S., ISBN ...
PHILOSOPHISCHES JAHRBUCH 102/1
More editionsDavoud Gharagozlou (Göttingen) W. Brandmüller und E. J. Greipl, Copemico Galilei e la Chiesa. Fine della Controversia (1820) gli Atti del Sant'Uffizio. - Pontifkia Academia Scientiarum; Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze 1992, 498 S., ISBN ...
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, ...
Meredith K. RayThis book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it.
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu ...
PreviewDomenico Accorinti teaches Greek and Latin at the Liceo “G. Galilei” of Pisa. His research interests include Late Antique poetry, the history of religions, mythology, the reception of classical literature, and the history of classical scholarship.
Farewell to Reason
Paul FeyerabendEssays discuss relativism, knowledge, creativity, progress, Aristotle, Galileo, cultural pluralism, and reason
Mission to Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project
Michael MeltzerFull color reprint of NASA History Office Study of 2007. Illustrated throughout.
Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities
Richard PanchykBiography of the man who invented the telescope and proved the earth revolves around the sun. Includes activities.
Galileo
More editionsArthur Jean Cox fl BLOW FOR UTOPIA "Well, we've made some sort of miscalculation. It's not a non-violent society. They attack you in their living rooms. They do! You should see what I've been through this past month. A month? My God!
The Shadow Master
Craig CormickIn a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation.
10 Inventors Who Changed the World
Clive GiffordIncludes ten riveting, in-depth biographies in a graphic novel format of legendary inventors, including Galileo, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin and James Watt.
Bertolt Brecht: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide
PreviewCritical essays cover Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Woman of Sezuan, Galileo, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
Thomas DixonFrom the trial of Galileo through to today's controversy over the teaching of 'Intelligent Design' in schools, there has been a long history of conflict between science and religion.
Galileo and the Conflict Between Religion and Science
Gregory W. DawesD. Pritchard, 'Wittgensteinian Quasi-Fideism', in J. L. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of ... 10 D. Moyal-Sharrock, Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 53–54. 11 Wittgenstein, On ...
A Treatise of the System of the World
Isaac NewtonOriginally written as part of his Principia Mathematica, Newton integrated Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Galileo's forays into the laws of gravity into a comprehensive understanding of the organization of the universe according to ...
Borderline Exegesis
Leif E. VaageLeif E. Vaage. ———. “El cristianismo galileo y el evangelio radical de Q.” Revista de Interpretación Bíblica Latinoamericana 22 (1996): 81–103. ———. “ Cuídate la boca: La palabra indicada, una subjetividad alternativa y la formación social ...
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries ...
Melvyn BraggThe fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincaré, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and ...
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific ...
Lisa RandallLisa Randall guides us through the latest ideas, charting the thrilling progress we have made in understanding the universe – from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made Modern Astronomy
Gale E. ChristiansonAn history of astronomy presentedlargely through biographies of its founders, from the early Greeks through Ptotemy to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, interwoven with the cultural history of western Europe, showing the ...
Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos
Robert BauvalIn this ground-breaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one.
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search ...
Alice Dreger" Kirkus (starred review): “Let us be grateful that there are writers like Dreger who have the wits and the guts to fight for truth.” Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World until Yesterday “Alice Dreger would ...
Wireless Positioning Technologies and Applications, Second ...
Alan BenskyElliott Kaplan and Christopher Hegarty, Series Editors A-GPS: Assisted GPS, GNSS, and SBAS, Frank van Diggelen Applied Satellite Navigation Using GPS, GALILEO, and Augmentation Systems, Ramjee Prasad and Marina Ruggieri Digital ...
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