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Galileo (Record no. 2402)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199655984
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 520.92 GAL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Heilbron, John L.
9 (RLIN) 366077
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Galileo
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 528 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth - the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the greatest moments in the history of science. It was also a point of change in the life of Galileo himself, propelling him from professor to prophet. But this is not the biography of a mathematician. Certainly he spent the first half of his career as a professor of mathematics and has been called 'the divine mathematician'. Yet he was no more (or less) a mathematician than he was a musician, artist, writer, philosopher, or gadgeteer. This fresh lively new biography of the 'father of science' paints a rounded picture of Galileo, and places him firmly within the rich texture of late Renaissance Florence, Pisa, and Padua, amid debates on the merits of Ariosto and Tasso, and the geometry of Dante's Inferno - debates in which the young Galileo played an active role. Galileo's character and career followed complex paths, moving from the creative but cautious humanist professor to a 'knight errant, quixotic and fearless', with increasing enemies, and leading ultimately and inevitably to a clash with a pope who was a former friend.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Biography: science, technology & medicine
9 (RLIN) 366078
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Astronomy, space & time
9 (RLIN) 366079
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 27/08/2016 3 520.92 GAL PKLC009879 23/06/2018 27/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Book Bazaar 6 21/04/2018
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 07/05/2016   520.92 GAL PKLC001760 07/05/2016 07/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Sold