Galileos Glassworks - The Telescope and the Mirror

Informationen zum Autor Eileen Reeves is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Klappentext Considers the lapse between the telescope's creation in The Hague in 1608 and Galileo's alleged acquaintance with such news ten months later. This book explores two fundamental questions of intellectual accountability: what did Galileo know of the invention of the telescope! and when did he know it? Zusammenfassung This book considers the lapse between the Dutch telescope’s 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo’s acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo’s life in this critical period.

Product details

• Authors: Eileen Reeves, Reeves Eileen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780674026674
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02667-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 3 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy