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