03191nam a2200325 4500000000342929CaOOAMICUS20201112121426.0201112s2019 xxua 000 u eng r978-0-691-17489-1SeMilitaViviani, Vincenzio,<1622-1703>.(OLS)http://semarc/name/82999On the life of Galileo.(OLS)http://semarc/title/431844On the life of Galileo :Viviani's historical account and other early biographies /edited, translated, and annotated by Stefano Gattei.Princeton ; Oxford :Princeton University Press,2019.LXVIII, 348 p., [24] p. di tav. :ill. (b/n) ;26 cmBibliography, p. 309-338The 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 Leopold 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.Testo in italiano e traduzione inglese a fronteGalilei, Galileo <1564-1642>.(OLS)http://semarc/subject/3284Astronomia - Italia.(OLS)http://semarc/subject/24552Gattei, Stefano,<1970- >.(OLS)http://semarc/name/55994SeMilSeMil1Venegono13X VI 20222248233801SeMilBibl2233801 1020978-0-691-17489-1(OLS)http://semarc/number/291624245On the life of Galileo :Viviani's historical account and other early biographies(OLS)http://semarc/title/431843264Princeton ; Oxford :Princeton University Press(OLS)http://semarc/publisher/59381