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1.		Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo from Anchor Price: $9.20 Customer Review: My interest in Galileo was recently piqued by a seminar on data presentation by Edward Tufte (strongly recommended, also his books.) I was looking for an overview of Galileo's work and some context. This book provides both, very well. The book provides long quotations from "Siderius Nuncius"... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science) from Modern Library Price: $10.85 Customer Review: I think one cannot be called "physicist" if never read this book. It is a classic that show how the foundations of the newtonian physics did were created. And the good thing is this is a suitable book for everyone from the layman to the PHD, easy to read, requires nothing more than basic... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $9.32 Customer Review: In this slim volume is packed the central thesis of one of the foremost students of Galileo: 1) that Galileo was not a victim of the inquisition but rather the Aristotelean method of reasoning particulars of Science from theoretical ideas. Galileo thought that experience, measurability and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (Dover Phoenix Editions) from Dover Publications	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about The Starry Messenger and Systems of the World from University Of Chicago Press Price: $39.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.	[no image]	Galileo, science, and the church, from Desclee Co Customer Review: Langford is even-handed and doesn't withhold criticism of academia and the Catholic Church for its handling of Galileo and his books. What I was taught by public school and the popular press: The Catholic Church persecuted Galileo because he asserted the Earth revolved around the Sun, and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 from University of Pennsylvania Press	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Stillman Drake) from Anchor Books	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Galileo from Hill & Wang Pub Customer Review: Drake says that Galileo aimed to replace the primacy of the philosophical quest for the truth with the scientific quest. Drake pictures Galileo as one who understands that Science does not bring absolute truth but closer approximations to truth. He sees the hostility to Galileo as having come not so... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Copernicus--philosophy and science: Bruno-Kepler-Galileo (Publication / Burndy Library) from Burndy Library	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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