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I don’t know much about John Milton and Galileo Galilei. However, I have stood beside Milton’s Mulberry tree at Christ’s College, Cambridge and beside Galileo’s chair and lectern at the University of Padua – and felt some affinity with the poet and the scientist. I didn’t know though that there was actually a connection between Milton
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Milton and Galileo
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CONTENTS
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Galileo and His Sources
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Galileo and the Birth of Modern Science
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When Milton met Galileo: the collision of cultures that helped shape Paradise Lost, John Milton
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Encounter between literature and science: Galileo's impact on Milton - Nick Ceramella, 2015
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Milton and Galileo: Affinities between art and science - Making Science Public
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