Galileo, dialogue concerning the two chief world systems - Galileo, Stillman Drake (translation)
KORTE INHOUD
Augmented by Galileo's handwritten additions in his own copy of the first edition, this classic in the history of science is reprinted unabridged from the first completely new transaltion in three centuries. The translation conveys in modern English the fiery spirit of the original 'Dialogue'.
Primarly the book is astronomical and philosophical in content, being concerned with the arguments for and against the motion of the earth. Galileo's discoveries and researches in astronmy - the phases of Venus, the satellites of Jupiter, and the motion of sunspots - share the main scenes with his cogent and derisive attacks upon Aristotle and his followers. The discussion of the Second Day contains many of Galileo's fundamental contributions to physics - inertia, the laws of falling bodies, centrifugal force, and the pendulum - as well as important historical steps in mathematics toward analytic geometry and the calculus.
Galileo's explanations, written in the infancy of modern science, can hardly fail to be understoo...
Primarly the book is astronomical and philosophical in content, being concerned with the arguments for and against the motion of the earth. Galileo's discoveries and researches in astronmy - the phases of Venus, the satellites of Jupiter, and the motion of sunspots - share the main scenes with his cogent and derisive attacks upon Aristotle and his followers. The discussion of the Second Day contains many of Galileo's fundamental contributions to physics - inertia, the laws of falling bodies, centrifugal force, and the pendulum - as well as important historical steps in mathematics toward analytic geometry and the calculus.
Galileo's explanations, written in the infancy of modern science, can hardly fail to be understoo...
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