...; in order to do this, a reference to the innovative and creative function of thought experiments in Galileo’s findings is also included. Thought experiments model-based abduction metaphors model-based cognition ignorance-preservation knowledge-enhancing Galileo Of the three Universes of Experience...

... and by performers of the composer’s music. Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi revival historically informed performance modernity William Shakespeare Galileo Galilei This year, 2017, is the second ‘red letter’ Monteverdi anniversary to occur in my lifetime. The first—his quatercentenary in 1967—came when I was just...

...Lin Zhu; Meina Liu; Edward L. Fink This research is based on data also used in the first author's doctor's dissertation. © 2016 International Communication Association 2016 Abstract This article used a Galileo multidimensional scaling model to explain how intercultural communication affected...

...This chapter discusses Galileo Galilei's biography and private life. It notes that Galileo first became interested in the connection between mathematics and the measurement of quantities such as mass and dimensions of bodies. It states some of Galileo's greatest achievements. It explains that one...

...This chapter discusses two significant events which are most literally relevant to world-making. These are, first, the series of cosmological and geographical revolutions leading from Ptolemy through Copernicus (On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, 1543) to Galileo...

...This chapter examines the use of mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in Europe during the medieval and renaissance periods. It analyzes the medieval and renaissance assumptions about the direct and mediated vision that served as backdrop for Johannes Kepler and Galileo’s thoughts. It also...

...This chapter examines the problems related to the mathematization of motion and the resolutions that were developed to address those problems. It considers Galileo’s belief that mathematics was a justification for the new practices of instrumental observation and Johannes Kepler’s opinion...

...This chapter begins with the period from 1633 to approximately 1642—the period of Galileo's life after the trial. It concentrates on the reactions of four individuals that for various reasons have emblematic significance: Galileo, Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Sister Maria Celeste, and René...

...The Church's unprecedented effort to promulgate Galileo's sentence and abjuration is evidence of the attempt to generalize Galileo's case, to derive general prescriptions from his condemnation. This chapter investigates how some state authorities reacted to Galileo's condemnation. The Catholic...

...This chapter investigates what might be called a third wave of reactions to Galileo's trial, covering the period between 1654 and 1704 and most significantly represented by the figures of Vincenzio Viviani, Adrien Auzout, and Gottfried W. Leibniz. Viviani account focused on Galileo's work...

... was “false and absurd in philosophy.” In 1709, in a work on the history of heresy, Domenico Bernini asserted that Galileo was held in an Inquisition prison for five years. Pierre Estève stated that Galileo had his eyes gouged out as part of his punishment. Voltaire had fallen under the spell of the prison...

... in this chapter. The chapter then describes Piero Guicciardini's portrayal of Galileo, and this is followed by a discussion of Jacques Mallet du Pan's account. Girolamo Tiraboschi ended with an explicit attempt to show his impartiality by mentioning two points against the ecclesiastical side: the Church was too...

...Torture and demythologization were the two topics coalesced around during Galileo's trial. David Brewster depicted him as having cowardly avoided martyrdom, thus in effect harming the cause of science and benefiting that of the Church. Guglielmo Libri was interested primarily in using Brewster's...

...This chapter explores how Galileo's trial was viewed by secular, socially conscious, left-leaning literary intellectuals in the middle part of the twentieth century. The first thing that Bertolt Brecht's play needs clarification is the issue of truth or accuracy from a historical or factual point...

...The one-hundredth anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth provided the opportunity for Pope John Paul II to make an appropriate statement or take some appropriate action on Galileo's trial. The account of the Galileo affair was clearly the dominant theme of the Einstein centennial speech. The Pope...

...Many people were disappointed or dissatisfied with the process of the ending of Pope John Paul II's rehabilitation of Galileo during the period 1979–1992. The case which was closed by Pope John Paul in 1992 was the process he had himself had started in 1979, which is merely a subepisode...

... science. Attempts to make such broad-reaching connections should be circumspect, as should apply to sweeping claims advanced by Erwin Panofsky (about styles in visual art influencing Galileo Galilei) and Stillman Drake (about music as the “mother” of modern science). With that caution in mind, this book...

.... Vincenzo’s son Galileo also used the language of harmony to express his adherence to the new cosmology. Throughout the book where various sound examples are referenced, please see http://mitpress.mit.edu/musicandmodernscience (please note that the sound examples should be viewed in Chrome or Safari Web...

... philosophy. In it, he was able to reach certain results well before Galileo Galilei. Mersenne presented musical devices to make pioneering measurements of the frequency of vibrating strings and of the speed of sound. His detailed treatment of the mechanics of falling bodies, inclined planes and pendulums...

...This chapter examines the theories of perception which originated with the scholastics in the late middle ages and which were challenged by early modern figures such as Galileo, Descartes, Locke and Newton. I argue that the earlier doctrines have shaped the debate over color ontology in ways which...