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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo [Buy it!] | Galileo Galilei, (Translator) Stillman Drake | USD 7.95 (Sat May 25 05:08:24 2024) | Abebooks | Strand Book Store, ABAA | ISBN10: 0385092393, ISBN13: 9780385092395, [publisher: Anchor Books] Softcover Galileo introduced the world to the most significant aspects of modern science - its method of inquiry and its criterion of truth. As his own popularizer, Galileo addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of copernican cosmology against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope and observatio nof such phenomena as comets and sunspots, his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science - the centraltenets of his career and subject of four of his most important writings, which appear here in new, definitive translations, with an introductory essay placing them in biographical & historical context. Addenda. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1957] |