Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Stephen Jay Gould, Galileo Galilei

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Stephen Jay Gould, Galileo Galilei with Albert Einstein (Contributor), Stillman Drake (Translator), J.L. Heilbron (Contributor)

640 pages first pub 1632 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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, ...

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