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Galileo's Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century Anna-Luna Post 9780822948599
Booksplease Price: $40.31A welcome new perspective on the volatile dynamic between fame and science in early modern Italy. Galileo's rapid ascent to fame in 1610 and the controversial method and implications of his... -
The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
Booksplease Price: $63.00Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly coloured, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and... -
Unlocking the Moon's Secrets: From Galileo to Giant Impact by James Lawrence Powell 9780197694862
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.47The Moon is the most viewed object in the sky, the Sun being too bright to look at directly and the planets too far away. The Greeks deduced everything that could be learned about the Moon using only... -
Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy Rebecca Cypess 9780226319445
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $61.40Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition-but until now, the... -
A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver: A Single-Frequency Approach by Kai Borre 9780817643904
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $85.09Satellite navigation receivers are used to receive, process, and decode space-based navigation signals, such as those provided by the GPS constellation of satellites. There is an increasing need for... -
The Many Lives of Galileo: Brecht, Theatre and Translation's Political Unconscious by Dougal McNeill 9783039105366
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $49.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039105366Author Dougal McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher... -
Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything by David D. Nolte 9780198805847
Booksplease Price: $47.73Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our... -
Galileo's Medicean Moons (IAU S269): Their Impact on 400 Years of Discovery by Cesare Barbieri
RRP: $89.01Booksplease Price: $85.24IAU Symposium 269 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's discovery of the Medicean Moons, Jupiter's four largest satellites, exploring the impact his findings have had on science and... -
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo by Thomas F. Mayer
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority,... -
Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts by M. Bennett 9781137275417
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $43.34This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre... -
How to be Critically Open-Minded: A Psychological and Historical Analysis by John Lambie 9781137301048
Booksplease Price: $59.70In a lively and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see another person's point of view while remaining critical - in other words how to be 'critically open-minded'. Using... -
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Suor Maria Celeste
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437155Author Suor Maria CelesteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
Publishing And The Advancement Of Science: From Selfish Genes To Galileo's Finger by Michael Rodgers 9781783263707
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $57.02Popular science books, selling in their thousands - even millions - help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific... -
On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies by Stefano Gattei 9780691174891
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $51.14The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of... -
The Martyrs of Science or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe and Kepler by Sir David Brewster 9781498011136
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $37.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498011136Author Sir David BrewsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Story of Galileo Galilei: An Inspiring Story for Kids in Farsi and English by Reza Nazari 9781637197035
RRP: $13.22Booksplease Price: $12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637197035Author Reza NazariFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Learnpersianonline.comPublisher... -
Galileo, Michelangelo and Da Vinci: Invention and Discovery in the Time of the Renaissance by Baby Professor 9781683680567
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683680567Author Baby ProfessorFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby... -
Dark Labyrnith: A Novel Based on the Life of Galileo Galilei by Peter David Myers 9781947431256
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947431256Author Peter David MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Barbera Foundation... -
Science and Religion, 1450-1900: From Copernicus to Darwin by Richard G. Olson 9780801884009
Booksplease Price: $39.10Galileo. Newton. Darwin. These giants are remembered for their great contributions to science. Often forgotten, however, is the profound influence that Christianity had on their lives and work. This... -
And Yet It Moves by Erin Stalcup
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.50In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the... -
Old Earth by Gary Grossman 9781626816343
Booksplease Price: $16.92"An ambitious tale loaded with heaping doses of adrenalin, OLD EARTH sweeps the reader away with history, intrigue, espionage, engaging characters, and an intelligent conclusion - all elements of the... -
Finding our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution by Todd Timberlake 9781107182295
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $41.40Finding our Place in the Solar System gives a detailed account of how the Earth was displaced from its traditional position at the center of the universe to be recognized as one of several planets... -
Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost by M. Sarkar 9781137006998
Booksplease Price: $60.29This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals... -
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Galileo Galilei's "two New Sciences" for Modern Readers by Alessandro de Angelis
Booksplease Price: $72.39This book aims to make Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) accessible to the modern reader by refashioning the great scientist's masterpiece "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New... -
Copernicus, Galileo and Newton: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat) by Collins Big Cat
Booksplease Price: $10.91Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and... -
Galileo's Mistake: The Archaeology of a Myth: Why Science Rules and Why It Shouldn't by Wade Rowland 9780919028425
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919028425Author Wade RowlandFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Allen PublishersPublisher... -
Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the <I>Two New Sciences</I> by Renee Raphael 9781421421773
RRP: $57.41Booksplease Price: $42.89In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a... -
Galileo's Commandment: 2, 500 Years of Great Science Writing by Edmund Blair Bolles 9780805073492
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $31.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805073492Author Edmund Blair BollesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher... -
Galileo Galilei and Motion: A Reconstruction of 50 Years of Experiments and Discoveries by Roberto Vergara Caffarelli 9783642043529
RRP: $167.69Booksplease Price: $107.07Among the many books on Galileo Galilei only very few deal directly and in depth with his scientific accomplishments proper. This is one of them and among the correspondingly sparse literature the... -
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking by William H. Cropper
RRP: $25.14Booksplease Price: $21.19Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such... -
Thus Spoke Galileo: The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present day by Andrea Frova 9780198566250
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.52You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said! His elusive and often misquoted discourse has resulted, over the years, in slurs against his... -
Gravity - Galileo to Einstein and Back: Newtonian Force, Slave or Master? by H R Harrison 9781581129328
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581129328Author H R HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher... -
Galileo, Human Knowledge, and the Book of Nature: Method Replaces Metaphysics by Joseph C. Pitt 9789401051583
Booksplease Price: $60.29Galileo is revered as one of the founders of modern science primarily because of such discoveries as the law of falling bodies and the moons of Jupiter. In addition to his scientific achievements,... -
Book 1 - Galileo's Points of Light in the Night Sky by Dr Katherine E a Korkidis 9798822962507
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822962507Author Dr Katherine E a KorkidisFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Palmetto... -
Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost by M. Sarkar 9781349435197
Booksplease Price: $60.29This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals... -
Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius, and Compassion by Sissel Waage
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprises will be radically different from those of our... -
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology James M. Lattis 9780226469294
Booksplease Price: $46.50Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue Maurice A. Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) 9780415503686
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.92The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of... -
<i>Mathematical Disquisitions</i>: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo by Christopher M. Graney 9780268102425
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Mathematical Disquisitions:The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance... -
Book 1 - Galileo's Points of Light in the Night Sky by Dr Katherine E a Korkidis 9798822962491
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822962491Author Dr Katherine E a KorkidisFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Palmetto...