Who Was Galileo?

Reducere. Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths...

Reducere. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography estab...

In 1600, the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno for heresy, and he was then burned alive in the Campo de...

Contributor(s): Author: Bertolt BrechtEditor: John WillettEditor: Ralph ManheimAlong with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht...

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Reducere. From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo" In...

Reducere. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and co...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where...

DescriptionEdward Thomas (1878 - 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems ...

Reducere. On July 20, 1969, at 3: 16 p.m., Commander Neil Armstrong brought the lunar module, Eagle, to a safe landing on the Moon. Millions of television vi...

Reducere. The notebook, in which the twenty-one-year old Thomas Stearns Eliot first began to enter the poems he had been writing at Harvard, is "quarter- bou...

Reducere. Code 19 provides a powerful evidence for God's existence, as expected, envisioned or demanded by some philosophers and scientists, such as Galileo ...

Reducere. Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was...

As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. N...

Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it ...

DescriptionJohn Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in...

Reducere. Why was the Renaissance such an important period of time in Western history? Who were the innovators who thought of the inventions we still use tod...

Reducere. Why was the Renaissance such an important period of time in Western history? Who were the innovators who thought of the inventions we still use tod...

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration ...

Reducere. Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel ha...

Reducere. This thoroughly revised third edition of an award-winning book offers a keen insight into how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Covering ...

Reducere. An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for visionaries an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clifford ConnerWe all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telesco...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the witchcraft trial of his mother, this lively biography of Johannes Kepler - 'the Protestant Galileo' and 16th centur...