Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still

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