The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology.

Theories of the Universe: From Babylonian Myth to Modern Science (Library of Scientific Thought)

History

Galileo Galilei

Thorkild Jacobsen

Claudius Ptolemy

Giordano Bruno

Nicolaus Copernicus

Theodor, Gomperz

F.M. Cornford

Plató

Lucretius

Ancient Civilizations

The Free Press

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

University of Chicago Press

On Sunspots

Christoph Scheiner

The Private Life of Galileo

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Maria Celeste Galilei

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Modern Library

Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Anchor

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Essential Galileo (Hackett Classics)

World

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison

An instrument can change the world and compel us to rethink our place in the universe.The telescope did just this, but only when it was used by Galileo, whose eye was prepared to see new things and whose hand was able to depict what he saw. It was not only because Galileo was a gifted and persistent observer, but also because he was an exceptional draughtsman that he was able to discover what others had failed to see or lacked the ability to record.

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, Or a Sidereal Message

Science & Math

Translated from the Latin by William R. Shea

Introduction and Notes by William R. Shea & Tiziana Bascelli

2nd Printing revised

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Science History Publications/USA

On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies By William Gilbert Concerning the Two New Sciences By Galileo Galilei, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. On the Circulation of the Blood By William Harvey. Great Books of the Western World 28

William Harvey

William Gilbert

Britannica Great Books

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