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Product Description: You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said. His elusive and often misquoted discourse has resulted, over the years, in slurs against his name and reputation as a scientist...read more
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9780198566250 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 13, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said.

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9780199606825 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 26, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: You might know what is said about Galileo, but not many people know what Galileo himself actually said.

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Product Description: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun...read more
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9780226707150 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2010, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging.

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9780226707167 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging.

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9781449228200 | Ebrary, March 1, 2010, cover price $15.76

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Product Description: This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science." Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" in 1638 as a sort of magnum opus to a life devoted to scientific experimentation...read more
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9781420938159 | Digireads.Com, January 30, 2010, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science.
9780762420155 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 2, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This latest installment in our On the Shoulders of Giants series presents the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) in its entirety.
9780879757076 | Reprint edition (Prometheus Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $15.98 | About this edition: Galileo Galilei was a great scientist, and therefore not afraid of causing controversy, even if he had to pay a great price.
9780486600994 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1914, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: As enjoyable as it is important, this classic encompasses 30 years of highly original experiments and theories.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9780559274312 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2008, cover price $37.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9780559274336 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2008, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Product Description: Spanning Galileo's entire career, this new collection presents an annotated translation of Galileo's most important writings as judged by their historical impact from the seventeenth century to the present. It thus presents not only those writings that bear most closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, but those most relevant to general culture as well, including writings on the relationship between science and religion...read more
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9780872209374 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Spanning Galileo's entire career, this new collection presents an annotated translation of Galileo's most important writings as judged by their historical impact from the seventeenth century to the present.

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9788420694122, titled "Dialogo sobre los dos maximos sistemas del mundo Ptolemaico y Copernicano / Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Ptolemaic and Copernican" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $71.95

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9788420661551, titled "La gaceta sideral / The Gazette Sidereal: Conversacion Con El Mensajero Sideral" | Alianza Editorial Sa, April 30, 2007, cover price $14.95

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9788420660158, titled "Carta a Cristina de Lorena / Letter to The Grand Christina: Y otros textos sobre ciencia y religion/ And Other Texts of Science and Religion" | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, March 30, 2006), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: This provocative 1612 essay outraged the author's contemporaries by challenging Aristotelian physics and by asserting that sunspots are actual spots on the surface of the sun or in its atmosphere, rather than satellites. This edition of the landmark work features an informative Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and an Index...read more
By Stillman Drake (introduced by), Galileo Galilei and Thomas Salusbury (trans)
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9780486446424 | Dover Pubns, September 22, 2005, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This provocative 1612 essay outraged the author's contemporaries by challenging Aristotelian physics and by asserting that sunspots are actual spots on the surface of the sun or in its atmosphere, rather than satellites.

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9788420699530, titled "Opusculos Sobre El Movimiento De La Tierra / Opuscule about The movement of the earth" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Galileo’s enduring legacy was the establishment of mathematics as the basis for research in the physical sciences. The proving-ground for his methodology was the machine shop in his Padua home. There Galileo perfected the "geometrical and military compass" (or sector), a calculating ruler based on the principle of proportional magnitudes that brought speed and accuracy to computations about armaments and their trajectories...read more
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9781891788970 | Cdr blg edition (Octavo, October 31, 2004), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Galileo’s enduring legacy was the establishment of mathematics as the basis for research in the physical sciences.

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9789500392136 | Losada/Argentina, July 1, 2004, cover price $17.75

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Product Description: Galileo has been termed by Einstein "the father of modern science."  Why that is so is the main burden of  The Achievement of Galileo.  Included in this volume are not only selections from his own works, full of the thrill and pride of discovery, but also assessments of his achievement by both his contemporaries and modern physicists like Philip Frank and Morris R...read more
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9780918680952 | 2 edition (Griffon House Pubns, August 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Galileo has been termed by Einstein "the father of modern science.

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Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
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9780606193993 | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.77 | About this edition: Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

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9780808502623 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

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Product Description: This is the acclaimed translation by Stillman Drake of "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences Pertaining to Mechanics and Local Motions." It is the work written by Galileo in the last years of his life, while under house arrest by the Inquisition for suspected heresy...read more
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9780921332503 | 2 combined edition (Wall & Emerson, September 1, 2000), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This is the acclaimed translation by Stillman Drake of "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences Pertaining to Mechanics and Local Motions.

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Product Description: Galileo Galilei’s earthshaking book, Sidereus Nuncius (The starry messenger), was a definitive moment in the Renaissance’s departure from ancient cosmology and its assumptions. Entering the debate between the astronomies of Ptolemy and Copernicus, Sidereus Nuncius provided rich and detailed evidence for Copernican heliocentrism...read more
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9781891788123 | Cdr blg edition (Octavo, August 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Galileo Galilei’s earthshaking book, Sidereus Nuncius (The starry messenger), was a definitive moment in the Renaissance’s departure from ancient cosmology and its assumptions.
9781852970192 | Archival Facsimiles Ltd, December 1, 1987, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Galileo Galilei’s earthshaking book, Sidereus Nuncius (The starry messenger), was a definitive moment in the Renaissance’s departure from ancient cosmology and its assumptions.

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This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun. (view table of contents)
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9780520205482 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

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9788420624891, titled "Carta a Cristina de Lorena y otros textos sobre ciencia y religion / Letter to Christina of Lorraine and other Texts on Science and Religion" | Alianza Editorial Sa, December 2, 1994, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries. In this volume William A. Wallace translates the logical treatises contained in that manuscript and makes them intelligible to the modern reader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780792315780 | Kluwer Academic Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $243.00 | About this edition: Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries.

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Product Description: "This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the reception of the Sidereal Messenger is profound; the bibliography is extensive...read more
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9780226279022 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: "This fine translation is a god-send.

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Product Description: Two New Sciences is Galileos most important work, which established physics as a modern science. This edition is the authoritative translation by Stillman Drake and includes an insightful introduction into the context of Galileos work...read more
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9780921332206 | 2 edition (Wall & Thompson, June 1, 1989), cover price $43.75 | About this edition: Two New Sciences is Galileos most important work, which established physics as a modern science.

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9780921332213 | Wall & Emerson, January 1, 1989, cover price $19.50

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Product Description: "This fine translation is a god-send. . . . Surely you want to read what Galileo wrote. If so buy this book. Van Helden's introduction is scholarly; no one knows more about Galileo's telescope; the translation is superb; Van Helden's review of the reception of the Sidereal Messenger is profound; the bibliography is extensive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226279039 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "This fine translation is a god-send.

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9780820701936 | Duquesne Univ Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $28.00

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