Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Galileo Galilei

Published by Folio Society, London, 2013

About this Item

First Folio Edition. Original boards in green cloth with elaborate black and gold solar-system design. Housed in publisher?s black slipcase. A pristine copy; buckram is bright and clean; internally unread. The book that changed the world. Presented in the definitive Stillman Drake translation, Galileo?s Dialogue is a brilliant, witty, and dangerously provocative defense of the Copernican sun-centered universe. Written as a conversation between three characters?Salviati (the Copernican), Sagredo (the intelligent layman), and Simplicio (the Aristotelian)?the work manages to be both a rigorous scientific treatise and a masterpiece of Italian literature. Beautifully illustrated with historical astronomical diagrams and charts that clarify the celestial mechanics discussed in the text. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• Publisher: Folio Society, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science