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Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger
Galileo Galilei
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Description for Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, unheard of through the ages, revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary spyglasses that appeared in Europe in 1608, and in the autumn of 1609 he pointed his new instrument at the sky, revealing astonishing sights: mountains on the moon, fixed stars invisible to the naked eye, individual stars in the Milky Way, and four moons around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries changed the terms of the debate between ... Read more
Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, unheard of through the ages, revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary spyglasses that appeared in Europe in 1608, and in the autumn of 1609 he pointed his new instrument at the sky, revealing astonishing sights: mountains on the moon, fixed stars invisible to the naked eye, individual stars in the Milky Way, and four moons around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries changed the terms of the debate between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226320090
SKU
V9780226320090
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About Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Albert Van Helden is professor emeritus of history at Rice University and the University of Utrecht. He is translator and coeditor of On Sunspots, also available from the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The Origins of the Telescope.
Reviews for Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger
Van Helden's new edition remains the best available for a student readership and as good a starting point as any to this revolutionary, scintillating book.
Metascience A second edition of this widely used translation with a new preface summarizing Galileo scholarship since 1989, an expanded bibliography, and very slight revisions and corrections in the translation as well ... Read more
Metascience A second edition of this widely used translation with a new preface summarizing Galileo scholarship since 1989, an expanded bibliography, and very slight revisions and corrections in the translation as well ... Read more