Robert Weir Brown Bag Talk 2012
November 13 - Robert Weir Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Windsor, Associate Professor. Galileo #39;s Textbook?: A Journey in Time and Space from Venice to Windsor Abstract: Among the effects of the historic McGregor-Cowan House in Old Sandwich that entered the used-book market in Windsor in 2011 was a copy of Giovanni Battista Benedetti #39;s collected works, his Speculationum Liber (Venice edition of 1599). This paper will consider the contents of this book and its handwritten annotations, which bear on mathematics, physics, engineering, astronomy and many other subjects, in the context of Italy #39;s scientific climate circa 1600. Palaeographical study of the annotations, in combination with the academic context of their contents and further circumstantial evidence, suggests that this book may have been Galileo Galilei #39;s personal copy that was plagiarized by him in his Sidereus Nuncius of 1610 and other works.From:WSUHumanitiesCenterViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:04:13More inEducation
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