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  • Selected Writings

    by Galileo ...
    Translated by William R. Shea, Mark Davie ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Great Astronomers: Complete Collection (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, John Flamsteed, John Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, James Bradley, William Parsons, William Rowan Hamilton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Nicolaus Copernicus0, William Herschel1, Golden Deer Classics2, Robert Stawell Ball3 ...
    This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley - Great Astronomers: James Bradley - Great Astronomers: William Herschel - ... Read more

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  • The Sidereal Messenger (Illustrated Original Edition)

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo Galilei had seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father's urging he instead enrolled at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. It seemed, by comparison with his heartbeat, that the chandelier took the same amount of time ... Read more

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  • Galileos Considerations on the Copernican Opinion (Illustrated Edition)

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous astronomers and scientists in history. After four years, Galileo had announced to his father that he wanted to be a monk. This was not exactly what father had in mind, so Galileo was hastily withdrawn from the monastery. In 1581, at the age of 17, he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine, as his ... Read more

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  • Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (Illustrated Edition)

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous astronomers and scientists in history. After four years, Galileo had announced to his father that he wanted to be a monk. This was not exactly what father had in mind, so Galileo was hastily withdrawn from the monastery. In 1581, at the age of 17, he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine, as his ... Read more

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  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science." Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" in 1638 as a sort of magnum opus to a life devoted to scientific experimentation. The book outlines his investigations into physics and ... Read more

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  • The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook

    Build 18 Innovative Projects with Brain Power

    by Lance Akiyama, Galileo Learning ...
    Series series Junior Engineer
    For kids who like to make cool things, The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook, features fun and easy, step-by-step projects to get young tinkerers making things they never thought possible!Make an automaton, a pneumatic machine, a suspension bridge, a flexible hand, a crash-test car, even a (working) vacuum cleaner! The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook gives parents and kids ages 6 to 10 a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Galileo Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences is one of the greatest works in western science. Written by Galileo in the last years of his life, (while under house arrest by the Inquisition for suspected heresy), the book had to be published abroad and eventually led to Galileo's censure.Written as a discussion between a master and two students, it sets forth a series of experiments and ... Read more

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  • Where Time Comes From

    A Handbook For Humans

    by Michael Galileo ...
    What if everything you've been taught about time is backwards?Where Time Comes From isn't just a book - it's a handbook for humans navigating reality. Part philosophy, part science, and entirely transformational, this guide reveals how time is not a fixed force outside of us but a responsive, electromagnetic dynamic we participate in with every choice we make.Author Michael Galileo (inventor of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

    Ptolemaic and Copernican

    by Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake, Translator, Albert Einstein ...
    Narrated by Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Fabiola Gianotti, Frank Wilczek, Lucio Piccirillo, Sylvester James Gates ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 39 min

    Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the earth revolves around the sun. The Dialogue is one of the ... Read more

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  • Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions.The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared under the direction of Antonio Favaro and published at Florence in 1897. The material specifically added to the text ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

    From Copernicus to Newton

    by Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Isaac Newton ...
    Translated by Aviva Rothman ...
    New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice ... Read more

    $18.99 USD