Description: 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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Item Length: 8.1in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Galileo
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: History & Surveys / General, Life Sciences / Biology, Astronomy, Essays
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Science, Philosophy
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 640 Pages
