Overview
- Describes Galileo's work in the light of prevailing world views
- Details Galileo's enduring influence on modern science
- Explores the threshold between medieval and modern thinking
Part of the book series: Springer Biographies (SPRINGERBIOGS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo’s exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.
Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his conflict with the church establishment of his time is no less famous. In this book, authored by a physicist and history scholar, Galileo's life and work are described against a backdrop of the prior scientific state of the art in his various fields of achievement. Particular emphasis is placed on Galileo's vision of the world in relation to historic and also future cosmological models. The impact of his discoveries and theories for the later development of physics and astronomy is a further focus of the narrative.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wolfgang Osterhage, born in 1948, holds PhDs in Physics and Information Science. He has worked as consultant to international organisations and corporations, and as lecturer and visiting professor at various institutes in Germany. Now, after many years of professional activity in other countries, he lives and works in the Rhineland as an independent author.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Galileo Galilei
Book Subtitle: At the Threshold of the Scientific Age
Authors: Wolfgang W. Osterhage
Series Title: Springer Biographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91779-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91778-8Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06297-2Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91779-5Published: 06 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-0613
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 156
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, European History, Philosophy of Science, History of Science