Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
By: translated by Stillman Drake. Foreword by Albert Einstein.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Solar system -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Galileo's outstanding scientific work supporting the new Copernican conception of the universe (which led to the famous trial). In the form of a conversation among characters named Salviati, Sagredo, & Simplicio.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [467]-491)
With facsim. of original t.p.