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Telescopes, Tides and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue About the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780226162317
 
from Univ of Chicago Pr (July 1, 1983)
9780226162317 | details & prices | 6.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $46.00
About: 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.