Galileo Galilei

Digitized facsimile of the 1610 Venice edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius from the copy in the Warnock Library; the English translation by Albert Van Helden (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989) and a commentary by Van Helden.

"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 geocentric and heliocentric cosmology and helped ensure the eventual acceptance of the Copernican planetary system"--Page of cover.

"A history of the controversy over sunspots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. The material that was added during the printing of the Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix"--

Galileo's outstanding scientific work supporting the new Copernican conception of the universe (which led to the famous trial). In the form of a conversation among characters named Salviati, Sagredo, & Simplicio.

This is a collection of Galileo's most important writings, covering his entire career. Here the relevant concept of importance centers on their historical impact, and the history in question includes not only Galileo's life and the 17th century, but also the historical aftermath up to our own day.

This is an inspirational book that one can go look upto in terms of motivation,inspiration and good leadership.

In this entertaining and authoritative new biography the author examines the flair and imagination, the hard-headedness and clarity, the combativeness and penetration of the person many people call the founder of modern science - Galileo Calilei. No great scientist has excelled him in making novel ideas intelligible to nonexperts. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of understanding nature is to understand a crucial stage of what is now known as the scientific revolution. Galileo was a path-breaker for the newly invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language and a quite brilliant popularizer of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at last been officially and handsomely recognized in Pope John Paul's recent and widely reported 'rehabilitation' of the Inquisition's most famous victim. (This condemnation and subsequent rehabilitation is fully discussed in the last chapter.). Galileo appears here with all his zest for living, gregariousness, impulsiveness, vulnerability, prickliness, unfairness and creativity. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to those who are not scientists and his mistakes are not passed over. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator - one of the greatest ever known.

E' la raccolta completa dei pensieri in largo senso filosofici che si trovano in tutte le opere di Galileo, comprese le lettere e le postille ai libri altrui. (G.Papini)