Galileo Galilei

When the World Stood Still

Atle Naess

222 pages, parution le 13/12/2004

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Résumé

"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ... kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals ... I abjure, curse, detest the aforesaid errors and heresies."

Galileo Galilei in Rome before the men of the Inquisition, 22 June 1633

In the small village of Arcetri, on a wooded hillside just south of Florence, an old man sat writing his will. He had to make a journey to Rome and wanted to be prepared for every eventuality. If the plague did not get him on the road, the strain of travelling might finish him off in addition he had been ill most of the autumn, with dizziness, stomach pains and a serious hernia. And even if he survived these difficulties, and the cold winter wind from the Apennines did not give him pneumonia, he had no idea what awaited him in Rome, only that his arrival was unlikely to be celebrated with a special mass.

The mathematician and physicist Galileo Galilei is one of the most famous scientists of all time. The story of his life and the age in which he lived, of his epoch-making experiments and discoveries, of his stubbornness and pride, of his patrons in the house of Medici, of his enemies and friends in their struggle for truth - all is brought vividly to life in this book.

Atle Naess has written a gripping account of one of the great figures in European history. For this biography he was awarded the Brage Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Norway.

Sommaire

Prologue : A journey to Rome
The Musician's Son
Signs in the Sky
A New World
Friendship and Power
Death and Omens
The Inquisition's Chambers
Eternity

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Atle Naess
Parution	13/12/2004
Nb. de pages	222
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	520g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540219613