Galileo, his life and times (history of science for mathmos)


2018-10-08 16:00: Galileo's background as an engineer (1) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-10-15 16:00: Engineering and mathematics in the late 16th century (2/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-10-22 16:00: Galileo's early career, Pisa and Padua (3/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-10-29 16:00: The telescope, Siderius Nuncius, the Letter on Sunspots. (4/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-11-05 16:00: Galileo, now famous, returns to Florence, fails to persuade natural philosophers (5/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-11-12 16:00: The greatest scientific polemic ever: the Diologo, 1632 (6/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-11-19 16:00: Galileo's arguments with the Church (a revisionist view) (7/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2018-11-26 16:00: The Discoursi: subterfuge and polemic, and a "proof" of the science of heliocentricity (8/8) (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)