What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution /
Lawrence Lipking.
- 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing a revolution -- What Galileo saw: two fables of sound and seeing -- Kepler's progress: imagining the future -- The poetry of the world: a natural history of poetics -- "Look there, look there!": imagining life in King Lear -- The dream of Descartes -- A history of error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth -- The century of genius (1): Measuring up -- The century of genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the system of the world -- Revolution and its discontents: the skeptical challenge -- Appendix 1: The fable of sound -- Appendix 2: Descartes' Three dreams.
9780801454851 (e-book)
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 --Influence.
Literature and science--History--17th century. Science--History--17th century.