Kissing Galileo

Author : Penny Reid
Publisher : Cipher-Naught
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942874461

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Kissing Galileo by Penny Reid Pdf

Her professor just saw her mostly naked. Awkwardness is guaranteed to ensue. Proceeds for the month of release go to College Track (501c3), providing college scholarships and resources for vulnerable / limited resource populations. At collegetrack.org What do you do when your freakishly smart and wickedly sarcastic Research Methods professor sees you mostly naked? You befriend him, of course. ‘Kissing Galileo’ is the second book in the Dear Professor series, is 60k words, and can be read as a standalone. A shorter version of this story (40k words) was entitled ‘Nobody Looks Good Naked’ and was available via Penny Reid’s newsletter for free over the course of 2018-19.

Author : David Hare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571297559

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The Judas Kiss by David Hare Pdf

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity. Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. 'Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.' Time Out, New York

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345519665

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Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson Pdf

At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it. From Galileo’s heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future—in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.

Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199655984

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Galileo by J. L. Heilbron Pdf

Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded view of Galileo, his scientific thinking, and the company he kept.

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810107430

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Rallying Cries by Eric Bentley Pdf

Called "the theater conscience of our times," Eric Bentley has been both a leading critic and a playwright. Rallying Cries presents three of his best known works: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, successfully staged around the world and on television; The Recantation of Galileo Galilei; and the controversial From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, a work initially rejected as insufficiently Christian by its commissioning theater but then successfully produced in New York at the Actors Studio and American Jewish Theater.

Author : F. Kersten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401589314

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Galileo and the ‘Invention’ of Opera by F. Kersten Pdf

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period. But instead of regarding them as finished products or examining their genesis, or `common ground', or `parallel' ideas, opera and science are explored by a phenomenology of the formulations of consciousness (Gurwitsch) as compossible tasks to be accomplished in common (Schutz) which share an ideal possibility or `essence' (Husserl). Although the ideas of Galileo and Monteverdi form the parameters of the domain of phenomenological clarification, the scope of discussion extends from Classical ideas of science and music down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, but always with reference to the experience of sharing the sociality of a common world from which they are drawn (Plessner) and to which those ideas have given shape, meaning and even substance. At the same time, this approach provides a non-historicist alternative to understanding the arts and science of the modern period by critically clarifying the idea of whether their compossibility can rest on any other formulation of consciousness.

Author : William R. Shea,Mariano Artigas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190292218

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Galileo in Rome by William R. Shea,Mariano Artigas Pdf

Galileo's trial by the Inquisition is one of the most dramatic incidents in the history of science and religion. Today, we tend to see this event in black and white--Galileo all white, the Church all black. Galileo in Rome presents a much more nuanced account of Galileo's relationship with Rome. The book offers a fascinating account of the six trips Galileo made to Rome, from his first visit at age 23, as an unemployed mathematician, to his final fateful journey to face the Inquisition. The authors reveal why the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, set forth in Galileo's Dialogue, stirred a hornet's nest of theological issues, and they argue that, despite these issues, the Church might have accepted Copernicus if there had been solid proof. More interesting, they show how Galileo dug his own grave. To get the imprimatur, he brought political pressure to bear on the Roman Censor. He disobeyed a Church order not to teach the heliocentric theory. And he had a character named Simplicio (which in Italian sounds like simpleton) raise the same objections to heliocentrism that the Pope had raised with Galileo. The authors show that throughout the trial, until the final sentence and abjuration, the Church treated Galileo with great deference, and once he was declared guilty commuted his sentence to house arrest. Here then is a unique look at the life of Galileo as well as a strikingly different view of an event that has come to epitomize the Church's supposed antagonism toward science.

Author : Matteo Valleriani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048186457

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Galileo Engineer by Matteo Valleriani Pdf

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works. One of the con- quences of this is the proliferation of identities bestowed on this gure of the Italian Renaissance: Galileo the great theoretician, Galileo the keen astronomer, Galileo the genius, Galileo the physicist, Galileo the mathematician, Galileo the solitary thinker, Galileo the founder of modern science, Galileo the heretic, Galileo the courtier, Galileo the early modern Archimedes, Galileo the Aristotelian, Galileo the founder of the Italian scienti c language, Galileo the cosmologist, Galileo the Platonist, Galileo the artist and Galileo the democratic scientist. These may be only a few of the identities that historians of science have associated with Galileo. And now: Galileo the engineer! That Galileo had so many faces, or even identities, seems hardly plausible. But by focusing on his activities as an engineer, historians are able to reassemble Galileo in a single persona, at least as far as his scienti c work is concerned. The impression that Galileo was an ingenious and isolated theoretician derives from his scienti c work being regarded outside the context in which it originated.

Author : Thomas F. Mayer,Thomas Frederick Mayer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442605190

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The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633 by Thomas F. Mayer,Thomas Frederick Mayer Pdf

English translations of primary documents.

Author : Zvi Schreiber
Publisher : Zvi Schreiber, Zedess
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983396826

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Fizz (paperback) - Nothing is as it seems by Zvi Schreiber Pdf

Author : Zvi Schreiber
Publisher : Zedess
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780983396802

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Fizz: Nothing is as it seems by Zvi Schreiber Pdf

A YOUNG WOMAN'S QUEST TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE The future. In response to global warming, the "Ecological Community" has banned science and technology, returning to an austere agricultural life and nature-worship. One young farmer, Fizz, is tormented by her burning curiosity to explore the universe.Leveraging a controversial legal loophole and her "Outsider" father's invention, Fizz travels back in time and engages in conversations with Galileo, Newton, Edison, and Einstein. Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, she relives the contradictory ways in which science and technology redefine the human experience. Returning as a changed person from her epic quest, Fizz faces the decision that will change her world forever. ____________This unique book weaves the bizarre and inspiring history of physics into the touching, dramatic, personal story of a young woman named Fizz who comes of age while voyaging across the centuries.

Author : Dusan I. Bjelic,Dušan I. Bjeli?
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791458814

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Galileo's Pendulum by Dusan I. Bjelic,Dušan I. Bjeli? Pdf

Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.

Author : Peter Godman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004476387

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The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine Between Inquisition and Index by Peter Godman Pdf

The opening of the archives of the Roman Inquisition and of the Index of Prohibited Books, in January 1998, enables us to think afresh about the history of two organisations more notorious than understood. Both have been considered, almost exclusively, from the perspective of their victims, such as Galileo Galilei. This book uses hitherto secret sources of the Inquisition and Index to reconstruct the history of Roman censorship in its first, formative years from the standpoint of Galileo's judge. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a censor for the Index and a consultor to the Holy Office, before becoming cardinal-inquisitor and (three centuries after his death) a saint and Doctor of the Church. His career provides a paradigm of how an intellectual could make his way to the top in Counter-Reformation Rome. Censored by Pope Sixtus V, Bellarmine responded by supressing the pontiff's version of the Vulgate and by repressing the Sistine Index of Prohibited Books. A new interpretation - including a revaluation of Galileo's first "trial"- of Roman censorship is offered in this book. Based on unpublished sources from the archives, which it edits and interprets for the first time, The Saint as Censor will alter our understanding of the Roman Inquisition and the Index.

Author : Richard Panchyk,Buzz Aldrin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613741887

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Galileo for Kids by Richard Panchyk,Buzz Aldrin Pdf

Galileo, one of history's best-known scientists, is introduced in this illuminating activity book. Children will learn how Galileo's revolutionary discoveries and sometimes controversial theories changed his world and laid the groundwork for modern astronomy and physics. This book will inspire kids to be stargazers and future astronauts or scientists as they discover Galileo's life and work. Activities allow children to try some of his theories on their own, with experiments that include playing with gravity and motion, making a pendulum, observing the moon, and painting with light and shadow. Along with the scientific aspects of Galileo's life, his passion for music and art are discussed and exemplified by period engravings, maps, and prints. A time line, glossary, and listings of major science museums, planetariums, and web sites for further exploration complement this activity book.

Author : Karl von Gebler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600081179

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Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia, tr. by mrs G. Sturge by Karl von Gebler Pdf