Galileo Galilei

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang W. Osterhage

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 159
• Series: Springer Biographies
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo’s exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.

Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his conflict with the church establishment of his time is no less famous. In this book, authored by a physicist and history scholar, Galileo's life and work are described against a backdrop of the prior scientific state of the art in his various fields of achievement. Particular emphasis is placed on Galileo's vision of the world in relation to historic and also future cosmological models. The impact of his discoveries and theories for the later development of physics and astronomy is a further focus of the narrative.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 1-6
Time and Space (1564–1642) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 7-15
Early Years (1564–1588) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 17-25
Pisa—Gravitational Experiments (1589–1592) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 27-38
Padua—Important Steps in Astronomy (1592–1610) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 39-49
Florence—Discoveries and Conflicts (1610–1623) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 51-66
Cosmological Excursions (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 67-104
Florence Revisited—Dialogo and Its Consequences (1624–1633) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 105-120
Final Years (1633–1642) (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 121-129
Conclusions (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 131-141
Time Line (Wolfgang W. Osterhage)....Pages 143-146
Back Matter ....Pages 147-156

✦ Subjects

Physics; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; European History; Philosophy of Science; History of Science