The Essential Galileo

The Essential Galileo
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9781603840507
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Download or read book The Essential Galileo written by Galileo Galilei and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison


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