What Galileo saw: imagining the scientific revolution

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history.

It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.

In this book, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.