Lipking, Lawrence, <br/><br/>
What Galileo saw :  imagining the scientific revolution / 
Lawrence Lipking. 
 - 1 online resource (333 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801454851 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 --Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature and science--History--17th century.<br/>Science--History--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR149.S4  / L56 2014eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>001.09/032