Galileo's Visions: Piercing the Spheres of the Heavens by Eye and Mind

by Nicholas J. Wade, Marco Piccolino, Nicholas Wade

Galileo is known as a pioneer of science - especially of mechanics and astronomy, but far less attention has been paid to his work on the senses, and on vision in particular. In this book, two experts on the history of science look at the novel ways in which Galileo looked at the heavens through his telescope, and, in the process, emphasised the importance of contrast phenomena and visual resolution within astronomical observations. He also described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199554358
• ISBN13: 9780199554355
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.9"