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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Ptolemaic and Copernican
Author: Galileo Galilei
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520004498
ISBN-10: 0520004493
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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