The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often
been called a decisive turning point in human history. It
represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern
ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking
offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then,
arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as
rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of
science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in
cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.
When Galileo saw the face of the Moon and the moons of Jupiter,
Lipking writes, he had to picture a cosmos that could account for
them. Kepler thought his geometry could open a window into the mind
of God. Francis Bacon's natural history envisioned an order of
things that would replace the illusions of language with solid
evidence and transform notions of life and death. Descartes
designed a hypothetical "Book of Nature" to explain how everything
in the universe was constructed. Thomas Browne reconceived the
boundaries of truth and error. Robert Hooke, like Leonardo, was
both researcher and artist; his schemes illuminate the microscopic
and the macrocosmic. And when Isaac Newton imagined nature as a
coherent and comprehensive mathematical system, he redefined the
goals of science and the meaning of genius.
What Galileo Saw bridges the divide between science and art; it
brings together Galileo and Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare. Lipking
enters the minds and the workshops where the Scientific Revolution
was fashioned, drawing on art, literature, and the history of
science to reimagine how perceptions about the world and human life
could change so drastically, and change forever.
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