In 1638 two men met in a villa in Arcetri, near Florence. One was a precocious thirty-year-old Englishman, the other an ageing and grey-bearded Italian natural philosopher. Under house arrest by order of the Roman Church, Galileo was used to receiving visitors curious about his astronomical theory, and his young guest may have left little impression. But John Milton did not forget the meeting. (查看原文)
When twenty years later Milton began his most famous work, the epic poem Paradise Lost, the memory of Galileo must have haunted him. He had been appalled by the unjust treatment meted out to the sage of Pisa, and in his passionate defence of the freedom of speech, Areopagitica (1644), he had described how Galileo’s imprisonment by the Inquisition ‘for thinking in Astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought’ had ‘damped the glory of Italian wits’. Yet what is the universe of Paradise Lost but the conventional hierarchical cosmos of Ptolemy, endorsed by Christian theologians, with the heavens above and hell below a static earth? (查看原文)
This little book is a very short introduction to everything it relates and will relate.It supplies us an understanding of what we can refer to.We can conclude it as the following words: lucid,succinct,illuminating and informative To me,the most impressive ...
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0 有用 @你 2016-06-30 13:19:41
a very short introduction to Everything
0 有用 小树 2012-06-11 22:40:43
对全套书的概览。
0 有用 吴明士 2010-02-17 22:23:57
没仔细读，人物介绍还是很成功的。
0 有用 Expialidocius 2020-02-13 11:38:44
引言挺好的，节选太简略了。读VSI的开始。
2 有用 川流 2013-12-21 03:13:20
very short introduction系列大赞，这本差不多是introduction的introduction，各种乱七八糟的东西混在一起挺丰富也挺有意思的。