Medieval & Early Modern
Galileo
Walter W. Bryant
1918
1h 58m
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He pointed a new instrument at the sky and the sky stopped being what everyone had said it was. Bryant, an astronomer himself, follows Galileo from the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus to the trial that silenced him, keeping the science in focus rather than the martyrdom. A working scientist's life of the man who made looking into an argument.
Inside this audiobook
12 chapters
- 1Birth and Education11m
- 2University Professorships11m
- 3Galileo's Telescope11m
- 4Discovery of Sun-Spots12m
- 5Growth of Opposition11m
- 6Causes of the Oppostion6m
- 7Publication of "Il Saggiatore"11m
- 8The "Dialogues on the Two Systems of the World"10m
- 9Troubles Ensuing on the Publication of the "Dialogues"11m
- 10Galileo Before the Inquisition9m
- 11Last Days of Galileo9m
- 12Conclusion7m
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