On sunspots
By: Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner ; translated and introduced by Eileen Reeves and Albert van Helden.
Contributors: Reeves, Eileen Adair.; Van Helden, Albert.; Scheiner, Christoph, 1575-1650.; Scheiner, Christoph, 1575-1650.; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226707150; 9780226707167
Subjects: Sunspots -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Description: A history of the controversy over sun spots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. The material that was added during the printing of Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sunspots before the telescope; title: Harriot and Fabricius; title: Christoph Scheiner; title: Tres epistolae; title: Galileo answers; title: Galileo's first letter; title: Galileo's second letter; title: A more accurate inquiry from Ingolstadt; title: Accuratior disquisitio; title: Galileo responds and goes into print; title: Galileo's third letter; title: Rematch, 1630-1632; title: Appendices; title: Scheiner and Galileo on the nature of the moon; title: Galileo to Maffeo Cardinal Barberini; title: Carlo Cardinal Conti to Galileo on scripture; title: Scheiner's calculation of the transit of Venus; title: Galileo's demonstrations; title: Front matter of Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti.