Galileo Galilei

This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.

Including The Starry Messenger (1610), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), and Excerpts from Letters on Sunspots (1613), The Assayer (1623)

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

As enjoyable as it is important, this classic encompasses 30 years of highly original experiments and theories. Its lively, readable expositions discuss dynamics, elasticity, sound, strength of materials, more. 126 diagrams.

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Un'opera pubblicata nel secolo XV. Sgombrando il campo da pregiudizi millenari e scontrandosi con le istituzioni, Galileo tratta quello che farà di lui il padre della scienza moderna - il metodo sperimentale matematico.

Dialogo dei massimi sistemi

Henrique de Sousa Leitão

o mensageiro das estrelas

Sidereus nuncius

The book is primarily astronomical and philosophical in content, being concerned with the arguments for and against the motion of the earth. Galileo's discoveries and researches in astronomy -- the phases of Venus, the satellites of Jupiter, and the motion of sunspots -- share the main scenes with his cogent and derisive attacks upon aristotle and his followers. The discussion of the Second Day contains many of Galileo's fundamental contributions to physics -- inertia, the laws of falling bodies, centrifugal force, and the pendulum -- as well as important historical steps in mathematics toward analytic geometry and calculus. Galileo's explanations, written in the infancy of modern science, can hardly fail to be understood today by both layman and scientist.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

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اكتشافات وآراء جاليليو

Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated)

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo

Il saggiatore

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Finocchiaro' new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo' career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo' own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin--Madison

The Essential Galileo

Stephen Hawking

This latest installment in our On the Shoulders of Giants series presents the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) in its entirety. Famed for its unapologetic support of Copernicus's theory and subsequent proof that the earth did indeed revolve around the sun (and not vice versa), Galileo's essay engendered great controversy when it was published, as well as heated opposition from the Church. The first work to outwardly challenge the established authority of religion, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences set the standard for all future scientists faced with the conflict of science and religion. In this text, readers will also find an illuminating biography of the father of modern physics, and an introduction by modern-day physics superstar Stephen Hawking.

Owen Gingerich

John W. Hessler

Daniel De Simone

Peter K. Machamer

David Marshall Miller

Paul Needham

Eileen Adair Reeves

A facsimile of a copy of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius in the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections.

"from Doubt to Astonishment"

The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610

Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses” that appeared in Europe in 1608, and in the autumn of 1609 he pointed his new instrument at the sky, revealing astonishing sights: mountains on the moon, fixed stars invisible to the naked eye, individual stars in the Milky Way, and four moons around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries changed the terms of the debate between geocentric and heliocentric cosmology and helped ensure the eventual acceptance of the Copernican planetary system. Albert Van Helden’s beautifully rendered and eminently readable translation is based on the Venice 1610 edition’s original Latin text. An introduction, conclusion, and copious notes place the book in its historical and intellectual context, and a new preface, written by Van Helden, highlights recent discoveries in the field, including the detection of a forged copy of Sidereus Nuncius, and new understandings about the political complexities of Galileo’s work.

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