Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Författare till Dialog om de två världssystemen
Om författaren
Galileo Galilei, the great astronomer and physicist whose researches played so crucial a role in the history of science, also occupies an important place in the history of philosophy for his part in overthrowing the predominant Aristotelian concept of the nature of the universe. Galileo considered visa mer himself a philosopher and referred to himself as such on the title pages of his most influential works. Much recent research has been devoted to examining both the philosophical background of Galileo's scientific achievements and the philosophical implications of his scientific method. Born in Pisa, the eldest son of a famous music theorist, Galileo entered on the study of medicine at the University of Pisa but quickly shifted his interest to mathematics. From 1589 to 1592, he taught mathematics at Pisa while studying independently with Jacopo Mazzoni, a distinguished professor of philosophy. His earliest scientific works, directed against Aristotle's account of freely falling bodies, date from this period. In 1592 he moved to Padua, where he lectured on mathematics and astronomy, and by 1597 he was defending the Copernican helicocentric theory of the universe in a letter to his friend Mazzoni. When in 1609, he learned of the invention of the telescope in Holland, Galileo quickly designed an improved version of the instrument for his own astronomical observations. His startling discoveries---including the satellites of Jupiter---were revealed in 1610 in his Starry Messenger (Sidereus nuncius), which led to his appointment as mathematician and philosopher to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. On a visit to Rome in 1611, he demonstrated the power of his instrument and defended the Copernican worldview in learned circles. Church authorities were divided on the question of whether the Copernican theory was consistent with scriptural accounts of the cosmos, and Galileo's position was attacked on theological grounds. He defended himself eloquently in his famous Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), arguing for the independence of scientific inquiry from theological constraints. Nevertheless, in the following year, he was forbidden to hold or teach the Copernican view. Retiring to Florence to pursue his scientific researches, Galileo let the Copernican question lie until a new pope, Urban VIII, seemed to offer a more favorable reception to his views. In 1632 he brought out his great Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a presentation of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian and Copernican systems heavily weighted in favor of the scientific superiority of the latter. In spite of the support of his Florentine and Roman friends, Galileo was tried and forced to recant his defense of helicocentrism under the threat of torture; the Dialogue was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books and its author sentenced to house arrest for life. Galileo's last years were spent in scientific investigations that culminated in the publication of his Discourses on Two New Sciences (1638). Galileo's legacy as a philosopher lies in his outspoken defense of the autonomy of scientific investigation from philosophical and theological authority, and his conviction that mathematical proofs can and should be sought in physical science, that celestial and terrestrial phenomena can be accounted for by a single set of scientific laws, and that scientific explanations cannot be divorced from direct empirical observation of phenomena. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Justus Sustermans
Serier
Verk av Galileo Galilei
Discorsi : unterredungen und mathematische Beweisführungen zu zwei neuen Wissensgebieten (2013) 8 exemplar
Galileo's Early Notebooks. The Physical Questions. A Translation from the Latin, with Historical and… (1977) 6 exemplar
Sensate esperienze e certe dimostrazioni 4 exemplar
Il compasso geometrico e militare di Galileo Galilei : testi, annotazioni, e disputa negli scritti di G. Galilei, M.… (1992) 4 exemplar
Le opere di Galileo Galilei volume 4 4 exemplar
Galileo e gli scienziati del Seicento — Författare — 3 exemplar
Frammenti e lettere 3 exemplar
Prose scelte 3 exemplar
Galilei (volume primo) 3 exemplar
La prosa 2 exemplar
Opere volume I 2 exemplar
Dos lecciones infernales : dos lecciones ante la Academia Florentina acerca de la forma, la ubicación y el… (2012) 2 exemplar
Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. By… (2010) 2 exemplar
Galileo Galilei: Opere 2 exemplar
Galileo Interactive DVD 2 exemplar
Galileo Galilei on Motion and Mechanics: Comprising De Motu (ca. 1590) and Le Meccaniche (ca. 1600) (1960) 2 exemplar
Against the donning of the gown 2 exemplar
Scritti letterari 2 exemplar
Galilei (volume secondo) 2 exemplar
Galileu & Newton 2 exemplar
Discourse on the Tides 1 exemplar
Duas Novas Ciências 1 exemplar
Opere 1 1 exemplar
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. Translated from the Italian and Latin into English by Henry Crew and Alfonso de… (1968) 1 exemplar
Great Books 28 1 exemplar
Lettera a Cristina di Lorena sui rapporti tra l'autorita della scrittura e la liberta della scienza 1 exemplar
Ground Power #104 1 exemplar
Galileu 1 exemplar
Opere 2 1 exemplar
Rime 1 exemplar
Problema della verità, Il 1 exemplar
Sidereus Nuncius (testo a fronte) e lettere 1 exemplar
Vita ed opere: per saggi criticamente disposti delle sue lettere e delle sue prose scientifiche 1 exemplar
Ground Power #105 1 exemplar
The Enlightenment 1 exemplar
Ground Power #249: Centurion Tank Series 1 exemplar
El ensayador 1 exemplar
The Sidereal Messenger Of Galileo Galilei: And A Part Of The Preface To Kepler's Dioptrics (1880) (2010) 1 exemplar
The Sidereal Messenger Of Galileo Galilei: And A Part Of The Preface To Kepler's Dioptrics (1880) (2010) 1 exemplar
SIDEREUS NUNCUS 1 exemplar
Galilei [Opere di] 1 exemplar
Il saggiatore nel quale conbilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e… (2019) 1 exemplar
Ground Power #108 1 exemplar
Ground Power #153 1 exemplar
Ground Power #109 1 exemplar
Ground Power #129 1 exemplar
Ground Power #133 1 exemplar
Ground Power #139 1 exemplar
Ground Power #140 1 exemplar
Ground Power #141 1 exemplar
Ground Power #142 1 exemplar
Ground Power #154 1 exemplar
Ground Power #147 1 exemplar
Ground Power #155 1 exemplar
Ground Power #158 1 exemplar
Ground Power #161 1 exemplar
Ground Power #170 1 exemplar
Ground Power #174 1 exemplar
Ground Power #178 1 exemplar
Ground Power #146 1 exemplar
Le opere di Galileo Galilei volume 12 1 exemplar
Le opere di Galileo Galilei volume 15 1 exemplar
Le opere di Galileo Galilei volume 14 1 exemplar
Trattato della sfera ovvero cosmografia 1 exemplar
I dialoghi sui massimi sistemi 1 exemplar
Dos lecciones infernales : dos lecciones ante la Academia Florentina acerca de la forma, la ubicación y el tamaño del… (2011) 1 exemplar
Pensieri, motti e sentenze 1 exemplar
Lettera a Cristina di Lorena 1 exemplar
Schriften, Briefe, Dokumente - Band 1 1 exemplar
Antologia delle opere maggiori 1 exemplar
De motu 1 exemplar
Opere letterarie 1 exemplar
Pensieri, Motti e Sentenze 1 exemplar
Dialogo di Galileo Galilei ... : doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del… (1999) 1 exemplar
Opere Discorso interno alle cose che stanno in su l' acqua-Lettere Copernicane-Il saggiatore-Lettere 1 exemplar
The Private Life Of Galileo: Compiled Principally From His Correspondence And That Of His Eldest Daughter, Maria… (2008) 1 exemplar
Galileo e la scienza sperimentale 1 exemplar
Galileo Galilei, his life and his works 1 exemplar
Rime 1 exemplar
Lettera a Cristina di Lorena 1 exemplar
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche 1 exemplar
Problema della verità, Il 1 exemplar
Sidereus Nuncius e lettere 1 exemplar
I Dialoghi Di Galileo Galilei Sui Massimi Sistemi Tolemaico E Copernicano: Volume Unico (Classic Reprint) (Italian… (2017) 1 exemplar
A Letter from Galileo Galilei: A Long-lost Letter from Galileo to Peiresc on a Magnetic Clock 1 exemplar
Opere vol. 34° 1 exemplar
Opere vol. 2 1 exemplar
Collected Works of Galileo Galilei 1 exemplar
The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original… (2016) 1 exemplar
Diálogos sobre dos nuevas ciencias. Jornada Segunda / Galileo Galilei ; [prólogo de José Calavera] (1981) 1 exemplar
Galileo's Letter about the Libration of the Moon: A Critical Study, Transcription, and Translation 1 exemplar
Il pensiero di Galileo Galilei 1 exemplar
I dialoghi di Galileo Galilei sui massimi sistemi Tolemaico e Copernicano (Italian Edition) (1874) 1 exemplar
Due lezioni all'Accademia Fiorentina circa la figura, sito e grandezza dell'Inferno di Dante (Italian Edition) (2019) 1 exemplar
Noticiero sideral 1 exemplar
The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 1,172 exemplar
The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 147 exemplar
Mechanics in sixteenth-century Italy;: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, & Galileo (University of… (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- GALILEI, Galileo
- Födelsedag
- 1564-02-15
- Avled
- 1642-01-08
- Begravningsplats
- Church of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Tuscany
Italy - Land (för karta)
- Italy
- Födelseort
- Pisa, Duchy of Florence
- Dödsort
- Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Bostadsorter
- Pisa, Italy (birth)
Padua, Italy
Florence, Tuscany, Italy - Utbildning
- Pisa University
- Yrken
- professor(mathematics ∙ Padua University)
astronomer
mathematician
writer
author
philosopher - Relationer
- Celeste, Sister Maria (daughter)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Accademia dei Ricovrati
- Kort biografi
- How can one summarize Galileo? He asked questions no one could answer, and then invented ways to answer them himself. He was the great Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and the father of modern science.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Galileo Galilei i Legacy Libraries (januari 2014)
Recensioner
Listor
Folio Society (1)
Priser
Du skulle kanske också gilla
Associerade författare
Statistik
- Verk
- 219
- Även av
- 9
- Medlemmar
- 3,304
- Popularitet
- #7,745
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 25
- ISBN
- 199
- Språk
- 16
- Favoritmärkt
- 10