{"product_id":"2940015735567","title":"The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIFE OF GALILEO.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                   Page.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.                                                             1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Peculiar interest attached to his Life--His Birth--His early\u003cbr\u003e  studies--His passion for Mathematics--His work on the Hydrostatic\u003cbr\u003e  Balance--Appointed Lecturer on Mathematics at Pisa--His antipathy\u003cbr\u003e  to the Philosophy of Aristotle--His contentions with the\u003cbr\u003e  Aristotelians--Chosen Professor of Mathematics in Padua--Adopts the\u003cbr\u003e  Copernican system, but still teaches the Ptolemaic doctrine--His\u003cbr\u003e  alarming illness--He observes the new Star in 1604--His Magnetical\u003cbr\u003e  experiments,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.                                                           20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, invites Galileo to Pisa--Galileo\u003cbr\u003e  visits Venice in 1609, where he first hears of the Telescope--He\u003cbr\u003e  invents and constructs one, which excites a great\u003cbr\u003e  sensation--Discovers Mountains in the Moon, and Forty Stars in the\u003cbr\u003e  Pleiades--Discovers Jupiter's Satellites in 1610--Effect of this\u003cbr\u003e  discovery on Kepler--Manner in which these discoveries were\u003cbr\u003e  received--Galileo appointed Mathematician to Cosmo--Mayer claims the\u003cbr\u003e  discovery of the Satellites of Jupiter--Harriot observes them in\u003cbr\u003e  England in October 1610,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.                                                          42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Galileo announces his discoveries in Enigmas--Discovers the\u003cbr\u003e  Crescent of Venus--the Ring of Saturn--the Spots on the\u003cbr\u003e  Sun--Similar Observations made in England by Harriot--Claims of\u003cbr\u003e  Fabricius and Scheiner to the discovery of the Solar\u003cbr\u003e  Spots--Galileo's Letters to Velser on the claims of Scheiner--His\u003cbr\u003e  residence at the Villa of Salviati--Composes his work on Floating\u003cbr\u003e  Bodies, which involves him in new controversies,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.                                                           56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Galileo treats his Opponents with severity and sarcasm--He is aided\u003cbr\u003e  by the Sceptics of the day--The Church Party the most\u003cbr\u003e  powerful--Galileo commences the attack, and is answered by Caccini,\u003cbr\u003e  a Dominican--Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, in\u003cbr\u003e  support of the motion of the Earth and the stability of the\u003cbr\u003e  Sun--Galileo visits Rome--Is summoned before the Inquisition--And\u003cbr\u003e  renounces his opinions as Heretical--The Inquisition denounces the\u003cbr\u003e  Copernican system--Galileo has an audience of the Pope, but still\u003cbr\u003e  maintains his opinions in private society--Proposes to find out the\u003cbr\u003e  Longitude at Sea by means of Jupiter's Satellites--His negotiation\u003cbr\u003e  on this subject with the Court of Spain--Its failure--He is unable\u003cbr\u003e  to observe the three Comets of 1618, but is involved in the\u003cbr\u003e  controversy to which they gave rise,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.                                                            72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Urban VIII., Galileo's friend, raised to the Pontificate--Galileo\u003cbr\u003e  goes to Rome to offer his congratulations--The Pope loads Galileo\u003cbr\u003e  with presents, and promises a Pension to his Son--Galileo in\u003cbr\u003e  pecuniary difficulties, owing to the death of his patron,\u003cbr\u003e  Cosmo--Galileo again rashly attacks the Church, notwithstanding the\u003cbr\u003e  Pope's kindness--He composes his System of the World, to\u003cbr\u003e  demonstrate the Copernican System--Artfully obtains a license to\u003cbr\u003e  print it--Nature of the work--Its influence on the public mind--The\u003cbr\u003e  Pope resolves on suppressing it--Galileo summoned before the\u003cbr\u003e  Inquisition--His Trial--His Defence--His formal Abjuration of his\u003cbr\u003e  Opinions--Observations on his conduct--The Pope shews great\u003cbr\u003e  indulgence to Galileo, who is allowed to return to his own house at\u003cbr\u003e  Arcetri as the place of his confinement,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.                                                          102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Galileo loses his favourite Daughter--He falls into a state of\u003cbr\u003e  melancholy and ill health--Is allowed to go to Florence for its\u003cbr\u003e  recovery in 1638--But is prevented from leaving his House or\u003cbr\u003e  receiving his Friends--His friend Castelli permitted to visit him\u003cbr\u003e  in the presence of an Officer of the Inquisition--He composes his\u003cbr\u003e  celebrated Dialogues on Local Motion--Discovers the Moon's\u003cbr\u003e  Libration--Loses the sight of one Eye--The other Eye attacked by\u003cbr\u003e  the same Disease--Is struck Blind--Negociates with the Dutch\u003cbr\u003e  Government respecting his Method of finding the Longitude--He is\u003cbr\u003e  allowed free intercourse with his Friends--His Illness and Death in\u003cbr\u003e  1642--His Epitaph--His Social, Moral, and Scientific Character,","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146409427184,"sku":"2940015735567","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015735567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}