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| 提及的人: | Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei |
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| 材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Eileen Adair Reeves |
| ISBN: | 9780674026674 0674026675 |
| OCLC号码: | 82472977 |
| 描述: | 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| 内容: | The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend. |
| 责任: | Eileen Reeves. |
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Fascinating...Eileen Reeves shows just how tangled with myth and legend the history of the telescope, and Galileo's pioneering use of it, actually was...Ms. Reeves recounts this complicated history with great flair. She is more interested in the missteps and the stumbles that accompanied momentous discoveries than in their scientific significance, and rightly so. The tale of Galileo's telescope is, as it turns out, an intensely human one. Sometimes, amid the intrigue and the campaigns of slander and distortion which surrounded Galileo's discoveries, it seems as if the chief obstacle to a clear-sighted gaze at the heavens lay not in better optics but in piercing dense clouds of misconception. As Ms. Reeves shows, Galileo was no isolated genius; he built on the scattered findings of his predecessors. To certain contemporaries, he appeared as a modern Prometheus, but he was also a shrewd operator, as ambitious as he was inquisitive. There was something both sublime and stubborn in his nosiness, yet in the end it led him to the stars.--Eric Ormsby"New York Sun" (03/12/2008) 再读一些...
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