What Galileo saw
by Lawrence Lipking · first published 2014
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"The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences. When Galileo saw the fac
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Book Recommendation: There's an absolutely stellar book on Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Descartes and several other brilliant people written in a very readable fashion. It's called 'What Galileo Saw' and it's by Lawrence Lipking. Perhaps my favourite book.
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