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This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared... Read Full Overview

'The truth which we arrive at by means of mathematical proofs is the same truth that is known to divine wisdom.'

Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that... Read Full Overview

This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared... Read Full Overview

Concepita nel 1610, l'opera ebbe un tempo di composizione molto lungo, dovuto principalmente a periodi di infermit? dello scienziato ed in seguito, a causa della condanna da parte del Sant'Uffizio nel 1616, al timore di dichiarare troppo apertamente la sua adesione al sistema... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

"Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano" from Galileo Galilei. Fisico, filosofo, astronomo e matematico italiano, considerato il padre della scienza moderna (1564-1642).

Dialog ber die beiden haupts chlichsten Weltsysteme, das Ptolem ische und das Kopernikanische ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1891. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft,... Read Full Overview

Dialog ber die beiden haupts chlichtsten Weltsysteme, das Ptolem ische und das Kopernikanische ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1891. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und... Read Full Overview

Serenissimo Gran Duca, la differenza che tra gli uomini e gli altri animali, per grandissima che ella sia, chi dicesse poter darsi poco dissimile tra gli stessi uomini, forse non parlerebbe fuor di ragione. Qual proporzione ha da uno a mille? e pure proverbio vulgato, che... Read Full Overview

This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science". Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" in 1638... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from Dialog ber die Beiden Haupts chlichsten Weltsysteme: Das Ptolem ische und das Kopernikanische