The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue

by Maurice A. Finocchiaro

The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican　marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of modern science'. The Dialogue　contains Galileo's mature synthesis of astronomy, physics, and methodology, and a critical confirmation of Copernicus's hypothesis of the earth's motion. However, the book also led Galileo to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041550368X
• ISBN13: 9780415503686
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"