This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of,
Galileo's exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the
worldviews of his age and beyond.
Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his
conflict with the church establishment of his time is no less famous. In
this book, authored by a physicist and history scholar, Galileo's life
and work are described against a backdrop of the prior scientific state
of the art in his various fields of achievement. Particular emphasis is
placed on Galileo's vision of the world in relation to historic and also
future cosmological models. The impact of his discoveries and theories
for the later development of physics and astronomy is a further focus of
the narrative.