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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014

1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780801454851 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780801452970 (cloth : alk. paper)

Print version: Lipking, Lawrence. What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780801452970

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.

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