Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo

I should think that anyone who considered it more reasonable for the whole universe to move in order to let the earth remain fixed would be more irrational than one who should climb to the top of your cupola just to get a view of the city and its environs, and then demand that the whole countrysi

It must have been unnerving and exhausting to write a book with the Inquisition watching over your shoulder. Under such conditions, an Italian inventor and astronomer, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an individual of unwavering determination, courage, and intelligence wrote the Dialogue Concerning the

[A pleasant Venetian villa; through the open window, we see tourists photographing each other with their iPads while gondolas traverse a canal in the background. SALVIATI effusively greets his guests, SAGREDO and SIMPLICIO] SALVIATI: Welcome, dear friends, and many thanks for answering my urgent conv Leggi tutto

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Copernicus’in "Göksel Kürelerin Devinimleri Üzerine" adlı eserindeki Güneş sistemini kanıtlarla gerçeğe dönüştüren Gelileo’nun "İki Büyük Dünya Sistemi Hakkında Diyalog / Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences / Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo" kitabı her açıdan Copernicus’un eserinin ç Leggi tutto

The end of Scholasticism starts with this book. The Aristotelian thought (or as the book usually calls them The Peripatetics) and its appeal to authority and the appearance of the phenomena as truth are overturned. Sometimes what we see (such as the sun rising in the east) is not what is. I loved th Leggi tutto

ITALIANO: Già dalla dedica al Gran Duca di Toscana, Galileo dimostra la sua capacità di offendere gli altri, che alla fine lo portò a processo da parte dell'Inquisizione. Infatti, nella dedica dice che le differenze tra uomo e animali non sono nulla rispetto alle differenze tra alcuni uomini e altri Leggi tutto

Why hadn't I read this book before? Not just one of the greatest texts in the history of science but fabulously written and entertaining as a dialogue. We hear about Galileo in high school, but that isn't like getting it right from the source.