Selected Writings
'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 selection from his writings contains all the essential texts for a reader to appreciate his lasting significance. Mark Davie's new translation renders Galileo's vigorous Italian prose into clear modern English,while William R. Shea's version of the Latin…
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Weitere Autoren: Shea, William R. (Übers.) / Davie, Mark (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-162378-3
- EAN: 9780191623783
- Produktnummer: 13899188
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'340 KB
- Abbildungen: drawings and diagrams by Galileo
Über den Autor
Mark Davie has taught Italian at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter. He has published studies on various aspects of Italian literature, mainly in the period from Dante to the Renaissance, and has edited Tasso's The Liberation of Jerusalem, tr. Max Wickert, for Oxford World's Classics. He is particularly interested in the relations between learned and popular culture, and between Latin and the vernacular, in Italy in the Renaissance.William R. Shea is the author of several books including Galileo's Intellectual Revolution (Macmillan, 1972), Galileo in Rome (OUP, 2003), and Galileo Observed (Science History, 2006), the last two co-authored with Mariano Artigas.
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