Selected Writings

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-958369-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Oxford World's Classics

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe.'

Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place in the universe. Threatened by the Inquisition for daring to contradict the literal truth of the Bible, Galileo ignited a scientific revolution when he asserted that the Earth moves. This generous selection from his writings contains all the essential texts for a reader to appreciate his lasting significance. Mark Davie's new translation renders Galileo's vigorous Italian prose into clear modern English,
while William R. Shea's version of the Latin Sidereal Message makes accessible the book that created a sensation in 1610 with its account of Galileo's observations using the newly invented telescope.

All Galileo's contributions to the debate on science and religion are included, as well as key documents from his trial before the Inquisition in 1633. A lively introduction and clear notes give an overview of Galileo's career and explain the scientific and philosophical background to the texts.

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Zielgruppe

Readers interested in the history of science, in Galileo and his discoveries, and the ongoing debate on science and religion; students of history of science, seventeenth-century history and the scientific revolution, cultural studies, religion and science, the Inquisition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galileo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davie, Mark

Shea, William R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Galileo
A Sidereal Message
Letters on the Sunspots
First Letter
From the Third Letter
Science and Religion
Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Letter from Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini
Observations on the Copernican Theory
From The Assayer
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
First Day
From the Second Day
From the Third Day
Fourth Day
The Trial
Two New Sciences
From the First Day
From the Third Day
Explanatory Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Davie has taught Italian at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. He has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance, and has edited Tasso's The Liberation of Jerusalem, tr. Max Wickert, for Oxford World's Classics. He is particularly interested in the relations between learned and popular culture, and between Latin and the vernacular, in Italy in the Renaissance.

William R. Shea is the author of several books including Galileo's Intellectual Revolution (Macmillan, 1972), Galileo in Rome (OUP, 2003), and Galileo Observed (Science History, 2006), the last two co-authored with Mariano Artigas.