Galileo

Selected Writings

Übersetzer: Davie, Mark; Shea, William R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts. Newly translated by Mark Davie and William R. Shea, the contents include full representation from his scientific masterpieces, his contributions to the debate on science and religion, and key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780199583690
• ISBN-10: 0199583692
• Artikelnr.: 34156881

Autorenporträt

Mark Davie has taught Italian at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. He has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance, and has edited Tasso's The Liberation of Jerusalem, tr. Max Wickert, for Oxford World's Classics. He is particularly interested in the relations between learned and popular culture, and between Latin and the vernacular, in Italy in the Renaissance. William R. Shea is the author of several books including Galileo's Intellectual Revolution (Macmillan, 1972), Galileo in Rome (OUP, 2003), and Galileo Observed (Science History, 2006), the last two co-authored with Mariano Artigas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Galileo
A Sidereal Message
Letters on the Sunspots
First Letter
From the Third Letter
Science and Religion
Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Letter from Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini
Observations on the Copernican Theory
From The Assayer
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
First Day
From the Second Day
From the Third Day
Fourth Day
The Trial
Two New Sciences
From the First Day
From the Third Day
Explanatory Notes
Index