This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633.
This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633.
Mark Davie has taught Italian at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. He has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance, and has edited Tasso's The Liberation of Jerusalem, tr. Max Wickert, for Oxford World's Classics. He is particularly interested in the relations between learned and popular culture, and between Latin and the vernacular, in Italy in the Renaissance. William R. Shea is the author of several books including Galileo's Intellectual Revolution (Macmillan, 1972), Galileo in Rome (OUP, 2003), and Galileo Observed (Science History, 2006), the last two co-authored with Mariano Artigas.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Select Bibliography A Chronology of Galileo A Sidereal Message Letters on the Sunspots First Letter From the Third Letter Science and Religion Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Letter from Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini Observations on the Copernican Theory From The Assayer Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems First Day From the Second Day From the Third Day Fourth Day The Trial Two New Sciences From the First Day From the Third Day Explanatory Notes Index
Introduction Select Bibliography A Chronology of Galileo A Sidereal Message Letters on the Sunspots First Letter From the Third Letter Science and Religion Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Letter from Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini Observations on the Copernican Theory From The Assayer Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems First Day From the Second Day From the Third Day Fourth Day The Trial Two New Sciences From the First Day From the Third Day Explanatory Notes Index
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