Galileo Galilei : the Tuscan Artist /: the Tuscan Artist. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pietro Greco.
• Authors: Greco, Pietro, 1955-
• Contents: Galileo's birth -- Music at the time of Vincenzio Galilei -- Vincenzio in Florence -- Galileo in Pisa -- A Novice in Monastery -- Challenging Zarlino -- Return to Pisa -- Galileo meeting Ostilio Ricci -- A young unemployed Mathematician -- Galileo as a literary critic -- Galileo's first approach to a new method -- Teaching in Pisa -- Galileo as a literary critic and writer -- The best eighteen years of his age -- A Tuscan artist in Padua -- The Nova Star -- A Sidereus Nuncius -- An artists' warning -- New projects -- Galileo superstar -- Vicisti Galilaee! -- Galileo as a mathematician and philosopher in Florence -- Galileo's triumph in Rome -- Converting the Church -- A theory of culture -- You cannot prevent humankind from looking at the stars: the Copernican Letters -- They silence him -- Three comets and an Assayer -- The censored masterpiece -- Will to live -- Galileo's Dialogues and music -- Galileo's last years -- The Enigma.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 851.2; Popular works; Mathematicians -- Italy -- Biography; Musicians -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; POETRY -- Continental European; Mathematicians; Musicians; Science -- History; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Physics; History -- Europe -- Italy; History of science; Popular astronomy & space; European history; History; Astronomy; History -- General; History; Italy; Italy -- Florence; Electronic books; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319720326; 3319720325
• Related ISBNs: 9783319720319; 3319720317
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 25, 2018).
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