Galileo’s Glassworks - Eileen Reeves - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk This book considers the lapse between the Dutch telescope’s 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo’s acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo’s life in this critical period. DKK 332.00 1
Galileo’s Telescope - Massimo Bucciantini - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos. DKK 289.00 1
