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 Galileo write by David Wootton. This book was released on 2010-10-26. Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature . . . [Wootton] excels in boldly speculating about Galileo’s motives” (The New York Times Book Review). Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a “new physics”; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton also reveals much that is new—from Galileo’s premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognized illegitimate daughter—and, controversially, rejects the long-established belief that Galileo was a good Catholic. Absolutely central to Galileo’s significance—and to science more broadly—is the telescope, the potential of which Galileo was the first to grasp. Wootton makes clear that it totally revolutionized and galvanized scientific endeavor to discover new and previously unimagined facts. Drawing extensively on Galileo’s voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly, this is an original, arresting, and highly readable biography of a difficult, remarkable Renaissance genius. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in the Astronautics and Astronomy Category “Fascinating reading . . . With this highly adventurous portrayal of Galileo’s inner world, Wootton assures himself a high rank among the most radical recent Galileo interpreters . . . Undoubtedly Wootton makes an important contribution to Galileo scholarship.” —America magazine “Wootton’s biography . . . is engagingly written and offers fresh insights into Galileo’s intellectual development.” —Standpoint magazine
Watcher of the Skies
Watcher of the Skies - 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 Watcher of the Skies write by Rachel Piercey. This book was released on 2016-09-22. Watcher of the Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How big is the universe? Are there dogs in space? What if your friend - or your granddad - was an alien? Join the poets in wondering in Watcher of the Skies, a sparkling collection of poems about the outermost possibilities of space, life and our imaginations. Fully illustrated by Emma Wright and accompanied with helpful facts from space scientist Rachel Cochrane (Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh) and ideas for writing poems from Rachel Piercey, this is the perfect companion for any budding stargazer or astronaut. With poems from Sohini Basak, John Canfield, Mary Anne Clark, Mandy Coe, Rebecca Colby, Dom Conlon, Dharmavadana, Julie Anna Douglas, Sarah Doyle, Inua Ellams, David Harmer, Philip Monks, Cheryl Moskowitz, Dale Neal, Rachael M Nicholas, Richard O'Brien, Suzanne Olivante, Abigail Parry, Rachel Piercey, Gita Ralleigh, Robert Schechter, Lawrence Schimel, Mike Sims, Camellia Stafford, Jon Stone, Kate Wakeling, Rob Walton and Kate Wise.
The Life of the Skies
The Life of the Skies - 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 the Skies write by Jonathan Rosen. This book was released on 2008-02-19. The Life of the Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death.
Watcher of the Skies
Watcher of the Skies - 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 Watcher of the Skies write by Dave Creek. This book was released on 2022-05-29. Watcher of the Skies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Watcher of the Night Sky
The Watcher of the Night Sky - 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 Watcher of the Night Sky write by R. Pudsey. This book was released on 2015-03-26. The Watcher of the Night Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifteen-year-old Abigail Crumble never really enjoyed talking about love and marriage and other such nonsense - no matter how often her boy obsessed best friend pestered her to do so. Or so she so adamantly proclaimed. Yet, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, after being tormented and belittled by some ill-mannered boys, Abigail makes the biggest, most contradictory mistake of her life. She wishes upon the stars for love, or even the smallest amount of attention, without knowing the full impact of such a feat. Abigail soon finds her simple life in disarray as princes, men and mysterious creatures come to her door, each adamantly in love with her and refusing to leave her side. Not only does she discover that she is cursed but also revealed is one of the biggest secrets that her parents had long decided to conceal from her. Mixing fantasy, humour, and romance, The Watcher of the Night Sky tells of one girl's journey to rid herself of a curse that was definitely more than she wished for.
