Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

by Eileen Reeves

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The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674026675

ISBN13:9780674026674

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"

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