TY - BOOK AU - Lipking,Lawrence TI - What Galileo saw: imagining the scientific revolution AV - PR149.S4 L56 2014eb U1 - 001.09/032 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Ithaca, London PB - Cornell University Press KW - Galilei, Galileo, KW - Literature and science KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Science KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10961883 ER -