Galileo : : Watcher of the Skies

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Call Number: 921 Galilei, Galileo
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Galilei, Galileo	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Conjectural history -- The mind's eye. His father's son ; Florence ; Galileo's lamp ; Eureka! ; Seeing is believing ; A friend in need ; Juvenilia ; The Leaning Tower ; Inertia ; Nudism -- The watcher of the skies. Copernicanism ; Money ; Fields of fire ; The experimental method ; The telescope ; Mother ; The Starry Messenger ; Florence and buoyancy ; Jesuits and the new astronomy ; Sunspots ; The Catholic scientist -- The eagle and the arrow. Copernicus condemned ; Comets ; The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo ; Urban VIII ; Family ties ; Permission to publish ; Alessandra Buonamici ; A river floods ; Publication ; The Dialogue -- Prisoner to the Inquisition. Maria Celeste and Arcetri ; Trial ; The Two New Sciences ; Vincenzo, son of Galileo ; Galileo's (un)belief ; The cosmography of the self -- Galileo, history, and the historians.

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