Add to ORKGThis essay examines Galileo’s peculiar comparison of small lunar craters in 1610 in his first treatise of telescopic observations, the Sidereus Nuncius, to the eyes in a peacock’s feathers and to a particular sort of glassware, and it argues that these allusions reveal more about a certain kind of sound than about the visual appearance of the moon. Galileo’s odd analogies find subsequent development in a thought experiment relating sight, sound, and sensation in his Two New Sciences of 1638
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We are, in a certain sense, living in an era comparable to Middleburg, Hol-land at the dawn of the 1...
This essay examines Galileo’s peculiar comparison of small lunar craters in 1610 in his first treati...
Galileo’s telescopic lunar observations, announced in Siderius Nuncius (1610), were a triumph of obs...
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created ...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei made certain astronomical discoveries w...
A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and Bill Marvin, MA, Lecturer...
This essay reassesses the role of reading in the context of seventeenth-century natural philosophy b...
he life and work of the early 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei have been pr...
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The special attention paid by Galileo to the problem of sensory physiology and particularly to visua...
Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in...
The early modern period saw the rapid development of two fundamental bodies of knowledge, astronomy ...
We are, in a certain sense, living in an era comparable to Middleburg, Hol-land at the dawn of the 1...
This essay examines Galileo’s peculiar comparison of small lunar craters in 1610 in his first treati...
Galileo’s telescopic lunar observations, announced in Siderius Nuncius (1610), were a triumph of obs...
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created ...
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei made certain astronomical discoveries w...
A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and Bill Marvin, MA, Lecturer...
This essay reassesses the role of reading in the context of seventeenth-century natural philosophy b...
he life and work of the early 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei have been pr...
The surviving text of Galileo Galilei’s lectures and studies on the “new star” is incomplete, fragme...
The Copernican question is a thread that runs through Galileo's entire research. This paper analyses...
On receiving news of Galileo’s observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the rugged face of...
In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running...
The special attention paid by Galileo to the problem of sensory physiology and particularly to visua...
Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in...
The early modern period saw the rapid development of two fundamental bodies of knowledge, astronomy ...
We are, in a certain sense, living in an era comparable to Middleburg, Hol-land at the dawn of the 1...