Galileo : decisive innovator
This entertaining biography examines the imagination and penetration of Galileo, path-breaker for the telescope, decoder of nature's mathematics, populariser of science, and the Inquisition's most famous victim. Accessible to non-scientists, this is the biography of one of the greatest innovators ever known.
Print Book, English, 1996
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1996
Biographies
xiii, 247 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.
9780521562195, 9780521566711, 0521562198, 0521566711
1051606550
List of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The strangest piece of news; 2. Early life; 3. Professor at Pisa; 4. The proper home for his ability; 5. Discoveries and controversies; 6. The condemnation of Copernicanism; 7. Controversy and new hope; 8. The Dialogue and Galileo's condemnation; 9. Two new sciences; 10. Rehabilitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Blackwell, 1994