Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still
Beschreibung:
The author was born in 1949. He studied language and literature at Oslo University and worked for some years as a teacher at various levels before becoming an independent writer of novels and non-fiction. Among his books is a novel about the Italian painter Caravaggio, translated into English under the title "Doubting Thomas" [in German as "Caravaggio's Flucht"]. His biography of Galileo won the Brage Award for best Norwegian non-fiction book in 2001. Næss' most recent work is a biography of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
His biography of Galileo won the Brage Award for best Norwegian non-fiction book in 2001
The Norwegian edition has sold nearly 6000 copies
Biographies as a genre are very popular
Prologue: A journey to Rome 5
The musician's son 7
A gifted young Tuscan 11
To Rome and the Jesuits 14
A Surveyor of Inferno 17
The spheres from the tower 19
From Pisa to Padua 22
Signs in the sky 24
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium 28
Lecturer and designer 31
A professor's commitments 33
Modern physics is born 35
A new star in an unchanging sky? 38
Drawing close to a court 40
The balls fall into place 43
The Roman style 45
The tube with the long perspective 47
A new world 49
Jupiter's sons 53
Johann Kepler, Imperial Mathematician 56
Several signs in the sky 60
Friendship and power 64
A dispute about objects that float in water 68
Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon! 71
The letter to Castelli 74
"How to go to heaven, not how the heavens go" 77
Foolish and absurd in philosophy, formally heretical 80
The hammer of the heretics 83
Deaths and omens 86
Comets portend disaster 91
Weighing the words of others on gold-scales 95
A marvellous combination of circumstances 99
War and heresy 102
European power struggle and Roman nephews 105
The old and the new 107
"An advantageous decree" 111
Two wise men - and a third 113
The Inquisition's chambers 117
Diplomacy in the time of the plague 122
An order from the top 126
"Nor further to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatsoever" 131
Convinced with reasons 135
"I, Galileo Galilei" 139
Eternity 143
A death and two new sciences 148
The meeting with infinity 152
"That universe ... is not any greater than the space I occupy" 156
Epilogue 159
Postscript 164
Appendix 166
Sources 167
Name Index 172
References 175