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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Prologue: Drake's Speech on Receiving the International Galileo Prize for History of Italian Science | ||
| Part I | Galileo: Biographical and General | |
| 1 | Galileo: A Biographical Sketch | |
| 2 | The Scientific Personality of Galileo | |
| 3 | Galileo's Explorations in Science | |
| 4 | Galileo's Language: Mathematics and Poetry in a New Science | |
| 5 | Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics in the Work of Galileo | |
| 6 | Measurement in Galileo's Science | |
| 7 | Exact Sciences, Primitive Instruments, and Galileo | |
| 8 | The Accademia dei Lincei | |
| 9 | On the Conflicting Documents of Galileo's Trial | |
| 10 | Galileo and the Church | |
| Part II | Galileo: Bibliographical and Textual Studies | |
| 1 | Galileo Gleanings XXI: On the Probable Order of Galileo's Notes on Motion | |
| 2 | Dating Unpublished Notes Such As Galileo's on Motion | |
| 3 | Galileo Gleanings XXIV: The Evolution of De motu | |
| 4 | Galileo's Pre-Paduan Writings: Years, Sources, Motivations | |
| 5 | Galileo in English Literature of the Seventeenth Century | |
| Part III | Galileo: Scientific Method and Philosophy of Science | |
| 1 | Galileo and the Career of Philosophy | |
| 2 | Ptolemy, Galileo, and Scientific Method | |
| 3 | Galileo's Procedures, and Metaphysics | |
| 4 | Theory and Practice in Early Modern Physics | |
| Part IV | Galileo: Astronomy | |
| 1 | Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo | |
| 2 | Kepler and Galileo | |
| 3 | Galileo's Steps to Full Copernicanism, and Back | |
| 4 | Galileo's "Platonic" Cosmogony and Kepler's Prodromus | |
| 5 | Galileo's First Telescopic Observations | |
| 6 | Galileo, Kepler, and Phases of Venus | |
| 7 | Galileo and Satellite Prediction | |
| 8 | Galileo's Sighting of Neptune (with Charles T. Kowal) | |
| 9 | Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi | |
| 10 | A Neglected Galilean letter | |
| Index |
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Cody Danskin
reviewed Essays on Galileo and the history and philosophy of science on March 10, 2019
Essays on Galileo and the history and philosophy of science
I read Darkness at Night because it appeared in the footnotes of Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Silverman was discussing Poe's Eureka, a "poem" that Poe claimed would explain the universe, revolutionize the world of science & philosophy, etc.
Among many other riddles, Poe takes on the question of why the night sky is dark.
Here's the basic question. Whenever you look up at the sky, your eye is meeting a star - somewhere, no matter how distant. And if there's millions, billions, trillions of stars, it's all the more likely that anywhere you look, your gaze connects to a star. So, with all those pinpricks of light in the sky, why don't they act like pixels, and create a bright sky at night? Why aren't the skies filled with starlight?
Harrison answers this question very thoroughly, by reviewing all the previous theories and explanations. It turns out that in order to answer this question, you need to talk about the nature of light, of space, whether the universe is expanding, and twenty or so other cosmological questions. He starts far back, with the Pre-Socratics, and goes all the way into the second half of the 20th century.
All this is interesting, but for me, it suffers from a problem common to a lot of science writing. If you already know the current answer to these questions, then hearing ancient Greek or 17th century theories about light has a piquant thrill - kind of like correcting an inaccurate rumor. But if you don't, then it gets rather confusing, and it becomes a succession of odd analogies ("Let's say you have a lightbulb in a box") and theologies.
Overall, I would recommend this book to those curious about the history of science, and the ways imagination confronts a paradox over time.
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