Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Galileo, Mark Davie, William R. SheaSeries:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2023-02-25Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198840138ISBN-10:198840136UPC:9780198840138Book Category:History, Religion, NatureBook Subcategory:Social History, Religion & ScienceSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 2.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCPP6G59QQ
Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems
'The truth which we arrive at by means of mathematical proofs is the same truth that is known to divine wisdom.' Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems, the most brilliant and persuasive defence of the Copernican theory that the Earth goes around the Sun to have been written in the seventeenth century, is one of the foundation texts of modern science. This new translation renders...
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198840138ISBN-10:198840136UPC:9780198840138Book Category:History, Religion, NatureBook Subcategory:Social History, Religion & ScienceSize:7.40 x 5.30 x 2.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCPP6G59QQ
Galileo Mark Davie has taught Italian at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter, and has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance. He is particularly interested in the relations between learned and popular culture, and between Latin and the vernacular, in Italy in the Renaissance. William Shea was a Fellow at Harvard...
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