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On the Life of Galileo - Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies (Hardcover)
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On the Life of Galileo - Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies (Hardcover)
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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 facade 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.
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