Galileo

Traces <strong>Galileo</strong>'s career, proposing that his exploitation of unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of understanding nature was a c... » 

Traces Galileo's career, proposing that his exploitation of unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of understanding nature was a crucial stage of what is now known as the scientific revolution. This book aims to make his contributions accessible even to those who are not scientists. «