Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican

Description

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernicancan system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the Sun. It's influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake's translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J.L. Heilbron.

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Genres

• Early works to 1800

Series Statement

• Modern Library science series
• Modern Library science series (New York, N.Y.)

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Other Editions

• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic and CopernicanModern Library2001-01-01
• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems - Ptolemaic and CopernicanCalifornia U.P.1953-01-01
• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & CopernicanUniversity of California Press1953-01-01
• Dialogue concerningthe two chief world systems,Ptolemaic & CopernicanCalifornia U.P; Cambridge U.P1953-01-01
• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems - Ptolemaic and CopernicanUniversity of California Press1953-01-01
• Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & CopernicanUniversity of California Press1962-01-01