Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World
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Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The discovery of the "Medicean stars" (the satellites of Jupiter) was pronounced a hoax, an optical illusion, a logical and theological impossibility. Stillman Drake, one of the world's foremost Galileo scholars, recreates in Telescopes, Tides, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226162311
ISBN13:9780226162317
Release Date:July 1983
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 8.3"
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