Life Of Galileo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Of Galileo write by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 2015-04-23. Life Of Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared into publicly abjuring his theories but, despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, eventually helping to smuggle his writings out of the country. As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but also the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals. Written in exile in 1937-9 and first performed in Zurich in 1943, Galileo was first staged in English in 1947 by Joseph Losey in a version jointly prepared by Brecht and Charles Laughton, who played the title role. Printed here is the complete translation by Brecht scholar John Willett. The much shorter Laughton version is also included in full as an appendix, along with Brecht's own copious notes on the play making this the most trusted scholarly edition of the text.
Life of Galileo. [Followed by] Life of Kepler
Life of Galileo. [Followed by] Life of Kepler - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of Galileo. [Followed by] Life of Kepler write by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune. This book was released on 1829. Life of Galileo. [Followed by] Life of Kepler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On the Life of Galileo
On the Life of Galileo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Life of Galileo write by Stefano Gattei. This book was released on 2019-07-23. On the Life of Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo’s life This unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy. Here in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani’s Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani’s text is accompanied by his “Letter to Prince Leopoldo de’ Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks” (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo’s later works, and the long inscriptions on the façade of Viviani’s Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the “Adulatio perniciosa,” a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini—who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo’s prosecutor—as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers. Featuring the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo’s pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time.
The Life of Galileo
The Life of Galileo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Galileo write by Bertolt Brecht. This book was released on 1980. The Life of Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Life of Galileo
The Life of Galileo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Galileo write by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune. This book was released on 2020-07-25. The Life of Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduction of the original: The Life of Galileo by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
