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Author Piccolino, Marco.

Title Galileo's Visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Galileo's Visions; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Bibliographic abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Approaching Galileo's science through a fable ; 2 Subtleties of vision and of the scientific revolution ; 3 Casting light on Galileo's contrasts ; 4 The lunar candour and the litheosphorus ; 5 Sensory surprises
6 Seeing mountains on the moon 7 Visible and invisible luminous peaks of lunar mountains ; 8 Visual limits and the visibility of infinitesimals ; 9 Heavens sensed ; 10 Galileo's sensory philosophy ; 11 The problem of Galileo's predecessors
12 A moon circle: celestial reflections and illusions with Sarpi, Galileo, and Castelli 13 Alternative visions ; 14 Galileo's visions ; References ; Suggested readings ; Name index ; Subject index
Summary Marco Piccolino and Nick Wade analyse the scientific and philosophical work of Galileo Galilei from the particular viewpoint of his approach to the senses (and especially vision) as a means of acquiring trustworthy knowledge about the constitution of the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
SUBJECT Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 fast
Galilée. rero
Subject Visual perception -- History
Eye -- Movements -- Research -- History
Visual perception.
Eye -- Movements.
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Visual Perception
Astronomical Phenomena
Eye Movements
Science -- history
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
visual perception.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
Medicine
Eye -- Movements
Eye -- Movements -- Research
Visual perception
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wade, Nicholas J.
ISBN 9780191510793
0191510793
1306372984
9781306372985
9780191766978
0191766976