Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2001
Summary
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757662 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037575766X |
| Author: | Galileo, Stillman Drake, Albert Einstein, John Heilbron |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 131mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Science |
Galileo
J. L. Heilbron is a professor of history and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He has authored numerous books on the history of science, including The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories and Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, and Technique.
Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard, and the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. His recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack, and Questioning the Millennium. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
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