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On the life of Galileo : Viviani's historical account & other early biographies / edited, translated, and annotated by Stefano Gattei

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Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
lxviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Gattei, Stefano, Viviani, Vincenzio, 1622-1703, and Viviani, Vincenzio, 1622-1703

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Vincenzo Viviani (1654) -- Historical Account of the Life of Galileo Galilei -- Preface -- 2. Girolamo Ghilini (ca. 1633) / Galileo Galilei -- 3. Leo Allatius (1633) / Galileo Galilei -- Appendix: Christophorvs Scheiner / Christoph Scheiner -- 4. Gian Vittorio ROSSI (1643) / Galileo Galilei -- 5. Vittorio Siri (1647) -- Excerpt from Del Mercvrio Ouero Historia De' correnti tempi -- 6. Vincenzo Galilei (ca. 1654) -- [Alcune notizie intorno alia Vita del Galileo / Notes on Galileo] -- 7. Niccolo Gherardini (1654) / Galileo Galilei -- 8. Vincenzo Viviani (1659) -- Letter to Prince Leopoldo de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks -- 9. Lorenzo Crasso (1666) / Galileo Galilei -- 10. Vincenzo Viviani (1674) -- Report on Galileo's Later Works -- 11. Isaac Bullart (1682) / Galileo Galilei -- 12. Joachim von Sandrart (1683) / Galileo Galilei -- 13. Paul Freher (1688) / Galileo Galilei -- 14. Vincenzo Viviani (1702) -- Testimony of a Grateful Soul -- Appendix: Advice to the Reader -- Appendix: Maffeo Barberini's, Adulatio perniciosa (1620).
Summary
The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's life, this 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 "Letter to Prince Leopold de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks" (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 "Adulatio perniciosa, " 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.
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ISBN
9780691174891 (hardcover)
069117489X (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-338) and index.
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