On the Life of Galileo (eBook)

Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies

Stefano Gattei (Autor)

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2019
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18574-3 (ISBN)

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The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy.Here in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani's Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani's text is accompanied by his "e;Letter to Prince Leopoldo de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks"e; (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo's later works, and the long inscriptions on the facade of Viviani's Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the "e;Adulatio perniciosa,"e; a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini-who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo's prosecutor-as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers.Featuring the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo's pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time.

Autor

Stefano Gattei is visiting associate in history at the California Institute of Technology and Dibner Fellow at the Huntington Library. He is the author of Thomas Kuhn’s “Linguistic Turn” and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism and Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science. He is the coeditor of Physics and Philosophy, the fourth volume of Paul Feyerabend’s collected philosophical papers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Schlagworte: Accademia dei Lincei • Accademia del Cimento • Accademia della Crusca • Alessandro Marchetti (mathematician) • Alfonso X of Castile • Antonio Barberini • Astrology • Astronomia Nova • Astronomica (Manilius) • Astronomy • Athanasius Kircher • Averardo de' Medici • Averroes • Barberini family • Benedetto Castelli • Bernardino Telesio • Blaise Pascal • cardinal mazarin • Cardinal Richelieu • cavalieri • Celestial mechanics • Celio Calcagnini • Christopher Clavius • Cimabue • Cosimo de' Medici • Counter-Reformation • Dante Alighieri • Don Giovanni • Duke of Florence • ephemeris • Evangelista Torricelli • exoplanet • Federico Cesi • Filippo Salviati • Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) • Francesco Berni • Francesco Maurolico • Francesco Redi • friar • Galileo affair • Galileo Galilei • Geocentric model • Giorgio Vasari • Giotto • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli • Giovanni Battista Riccioli • Giovanni Battista Rinuccini • Giovanni Francesco Sagredo • Girolamo Mei • Giuseppe Moletti • Guidobaldo del Monte • Guido Bentivoglio • heliocentrism • Jacopo Mazzoni • Johannes Kepler • Joseph Justus Scaliger • Jupiter • Life of Galileo • Maffeo Barberini (1631–1685) • Marsilio Ficino • mathematician • Medici Chapel • Museo Galileo • Nicholas of Cusa • Nicolas Steno • Omnipotence • Orazio • Orazio Grassi • Paolo Sarpi • papal bull • Pierre Gassendi • Pinacotheca • Pompeo • Pope Gregory XIII • Pope Innocent X • Pope Paul V • Pope Sixtus V • Pope Urban VIII • Ptolemy • Roman Inquisition • Savona • Simplicius of Cilicia • Society of Jesus • the assayer • The Inquisition Tribunal • the new science • tommaso campanella • Two New Sciences • Tychonic System • University of Bologna • University of Ferrara • University of Florence • University of Padua • University of Pisa • Uraniborg • Villa Il Gioiello • Villa Medici • Vincenzo Galilei • Vincenzo Viviani • Vitruvius
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18574-3 / 0691185743
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18574-3 / 9780691185743