Eileen Adair Reeves
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Adair Reeves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen Adair |
| FAMILY NAME | Reeves |
| SIGNATURE | REEVES E A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Galileo's Glassworks
The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind - so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with …
Speaking of Sunspots
Speaking of Sunspots:Oral Culture in an Early Modern Scientific Exchange Eileen Reeves (bio) "The sun will also give signs; who would dare call it a liar?"1 So the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner concluded in an adaptation of verses drawn from the first book of Virgil's Georgics,2 the third of his Three Letters on the sunspots in December 1611. The supposition that the solar body disbursed a legible and even meaningful set of signs th…
Old Wives' Tales and the New World System
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1999
Old Wives' Tales and the New World System
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1999
Old Wives' Tales and the New World System
Configurations - Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 1999
Speaking of Sunspots
Speaking of Sunspots:Oral Culture in an Early Modern Scientific Exchange Eileen Reeves (bio) "The sun will also give signs; who would dare call it a liar?"1 So the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner concluded in an adaptation of verses drawn from the first book of Virgil's Georgics,2 the third of his Three Letters on the sunspots in December 1611. The supposition that the solar body disbursed a legible and even meaningful set of signs th…
Galileo's Glassworks
The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind - so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with …
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