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Galileo's visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade

Author
Piccolino, Marco
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xvii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Wade, Nicholas J.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Approaching Galileo's science through a fable -- 2.Subtleties of vision and of the scientific revolution -- 3.Casting light on Galileo's contrasts -- 4.The lunar candour and the litheosphorus -- 5.Sensory surprises -- 6.Seeing mountains on the moon -- 7.Visible and invisible luminous peaks of lunar mountains -- 8.Visual limits and the visibility of infinitesimals -- 9.Heavens sensed -- 10.Galileo's sensory philosophy -- 11.The problem of Galileo's predecessors -- 12.A moon circle: celestial reflections and illusions with Sarpi, Galileo, and Castelli -- 13.Alternative visions -- 14.Galileo's visions.
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ISBN
0199554358 (cloth)
9780199554355 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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