TY - BOOK ID - 85735633 TI - On the life of Galileo : Viviani's historical account and other early biographies AU - Gattei, Stefano AU - Allatius, Leo AU - Bullart, Isaac AU - Crasso, Lorenzo AU - Freher, Paul AU - Galilei, Vincenzo AU - Gherardini, Niccolò AU - Ghilini, Girolamo AU - Rossi, Gian Vittorio AU - Sandrart, Joachim von AU - Siri, Vittorio AU - Viviani, Vincenzo PY - 2019 SN - 0691185743 069117489X PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Astronomers KW - Galilei, Galileo, KW - Galileo Galilei KW - Galilée KW - Italy. KW - Italia KW - Italian Republic KW - Italianska republika KW - Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika KW - Italie KW - Italien KW - Italii͡ KW - Italii͡a Respublikasi KW - Italiĭsʹka Respublika KW - Itālija KW - Itālijas Republika KW - Italijos Respublika KW - Italikē Dēmokratia KW - Īṭāliy KW - Italiya Respublikasi KW - It'allia KW - It'allia Konghwaguk KW - İtalya KW - İtalya Cumhuriyeti KW - Iṭalyah KW - Iṭalye KW - Itaria KW - Itaria Kyōwakoku KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah KW - Kgl. Italienische Regierung KW - Königliche Italienische Regierung KW - Laško KW - Lýðveldið Ítalía KW - Olasz Köztársaság KW - Olaszország KW - Regno d'Italia KW - Repubblica italiana KW - Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit KW - Włochy KW - Yidali KW - Yidali Gongheguo KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85735633 AB - The first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's lifeThis 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. ER -