Product Description: Galileo has been termed by Einstein "the father of modern science."  Why that is so is the main burden of  The Achievement of Galileo.  Included in this volume are not only selections from his own works, full of the thrill and pride of discovery, but also assessments of his achievement by both his contemporaries and modern physicists like Philip Frank and Morris R...read more

Product Description: CARTA A CRISTINA DE LORENA Y OTROS TEXTOS SOBRE CIENCIA Y RELIGIO N

Product Description: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) se propuso cambiar la vieja vision fisica y filosofica del mundo, basada en la nocion aristotelica de un mundo firme e inmovil. En este libro, que sento las bases de la fisica moderna, Galileo retomo las ideas formuladas por Copernico sobre el movimiento terrestre del campo de la astronomia y lo planteo en el terreno general de la filosofia de la naturaleza, legandonos un texto que es a la vez de ciencia fisica y astronomia, de epistemologia, logica y filosofia, y de la cultura...read more

Product Description: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi Tolemaico e Copernicano

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This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Galileo Galilei was a great scientist, and therefore not afraid of causing controversy, even if he had to pay a great price. His public advocacy of the Copernican over the Aristotelian system of the universe flew directly in the face of biblical authority and ecclesiastical tradition. Condemned and placed under house arrest by the Inquisition, Galileo nonetheless devoted his last years to the completion of his Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, which deals with motion and the resistance of solids. The Two New Sciences, which Galileo called his most important work, may be regarded as the summary statement of a life devoted to scientific experimentation and free inquiry untrammeled by tradition and authority.

Product Description: Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche

Product Description: Estas lecciones sobre el infierno en la Divina Comedia fueron leídas públicamente por Galileo a pedido de la Academia Florentina y quedaron olvidadas hasta que, casi tres siglos más tarde, un investigador halló los manuscritos por azar...read more

Product Description: Due Lezioni all'Accademia Fiorentina

This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries. In this volume William A. Wallace translates the logical treatises contained in that manuscript and makes them intelligible to the modern reader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun...read more

Product Description: Operations Of The Geometric And Military Compass, by Galileo Galilei

Product Description: Galileo’s enduring legacy was the establishment of mathematics as the basis for research in the physical sciences. The proving-ground for his methodology was the machine shop in his Padua home. There Galileo perfected the "geometrical and military compass" (or sector), a calculating ruler based on the principle of proportional magnitudes that brought speed and accuracy to computations about armaments and their trajectories...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more