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Acknowledgments | iv | |
Introduction: Galileo ... Who was he? | 7 | |
Observer of Nature | ||
Inventor of Experiments | ||
Builder of Instruments | ||
Teacher | ||
Defender of Free Thought | ||
1. | Student in Pisa | 11 |
Aristotle's Authority | ||
Swinging Lamps and Pendulums | ||
From Medicine to Mathematics | ||
2. | The Young Teacher | 21 |
Archimedes and the Hydrostatic Balance | ||
Teacher in Pisa | ||
De Motu (on Motion) | ||
Falling Bodies | ||
From Pisa to Padua | ||
3. | Good Times | 27 |
A Venetian Nobleman: Sagredo | ||
The Experimental School of Medicine in Padua | ||
Public and Private Teaching | ||
Galileo's Geometric and Military Compass | ||
Magnets | ||
An Unfortunate Trip | ||
4. | The Telescope | 39 |
Copernicus | ||
The Sun at the Center of the Universe | ||
Kepler | ||
News of a Telescope | ||
Galileo Presents His Telescope to the Doge | ||
5. | The Universe Through the Telescope | 48 |
New Aspects of the Moon | ||
Jupiter's Satellites | ||
The Phases of Venus | ||
Sunspots | ||
The Aristotelian Universe is Shaken | ||
Galileo and Kepler | ||
6. | Florence and Rome | 62 |
Sagredo's Prophecy | ||
Triumph in Rome | ||
The Inquisition | ||
Polemic Writings | ||
The Laws of Nature and the Scriptures | ||
The Decree Against the Copernican Doctrine | ||
The Assayer | ||
7. | Galileo and Urban VIII | 78 |
The Dialogue | ||
The Summons to Rome | ||
The Trial | ||
The Sentence | ||
8. | Father and Daughter | 86 |
Galileo at Home | ||
Sister Maria Celeste | ||
Death of a Daughter | ||
9. | The Last Years | 94 |
Blindness | ||
Milton's Visit | ||
Death | ||
10. | Galileo's Physics | 96 |
The Law of Inertia | ||
More About Falling Bodies | ||
The Motion of Projectiles | ||
Faith in the Laws of Nature | ||
"This Vast and Most Excellent Science" | ||
Appendix | The Little Balance and a Note on It | 113 |
Bibliography | 122 | |
Index | 125 |
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