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

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

Product Description: Galileo Galilei’s earthshaking book, Sidereus Nuncius (The starry messenger), was a definitive moment in the Renaissance’s departure from ancient cosmology and its assumptions. Entering the debate between the astronomies of Ptolemy and Copernicus, Sidereus Nuncius provided rich and detailed evidence for Copernican heliocentrism...read more

Product Description: Two New Sciences is Galileos most important work, which established physics as a modern science. This edition is the authoritative translation by Stillman Drake and includes an insightful introduction into the context of Galileos work...read more

"This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the reception of the Sidereal Messenger is profound; the bibliography is extensive. What more can I say?"—David W. Hughes, The Observatory"[Sidereus nunclus] has never before been made available in its entirety in a continuous form, with full notes and comment. The introduction, translation and notes by Van Helden are a splendid example of the best scholarship and fullest accessibility. . . . we can now truly get to grips with the phenomenon of Galileo and what his life and work should mean to us today."—Robert Temple, Nature

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

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)

Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

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: Brand New. Ship worldwide

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: Este volumen de Opúsculos sobre el movimiento de la Tierra reúne tres textos de singular importancia para entender la génesis y la difusión inicial de la revolución copernicana: breve exposición de sus hipótesis acerca de los movimientos celestes, es un manuscrito de Nicolás Copérnico anterior a 1514...read more

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: 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

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.