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On sunspots / Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner ; translated and introduced by Eileen Reeves and Albert Van Helden.

Title
On sunspots / Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner ; translated and introduced by Eileen Reeves and Albert Van Helden.
Author
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Reeves, Eileen Adair
  • Van Helden, Albert.
  • Scheiner, Christoph, 1575-1650.
Description
xi, 418 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"A history of the controversy over sunspots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. The material that was added during the printing of the Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix"--
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Sunspots > Early works to 1800
  • Sunspots
Genre/Form
Early works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-399) and index.
Language (note)
  • In English; translated from Italian and Latin.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Sunspots before the telescope -- Harriot and Fabricius -- Christoph Scheiner -- Tres epistolae -- Galileo answers -- Galileo's first letter -- Galileo's second letter -- A more accurate inquiry from Ingolstadt -- Accuratior disquisitio -- Galileo responds and goes into print -- Galileo's third letter -- Rematch, 1630-1632 -- Appendices -- Scheiner and Galileo on the nature of the moon -- Galileo to Maffeo Cardinal Barberini -- Carlo Cardinal Conti to Galileo on scripture -- Scheiner's calculation of the transit of Venus -- Galileo's demonstrations -- Front matter of Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti.
ISBN
  • 9780226707150 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226707156 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226707167 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226707164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009042191
  • 40018541618
OCLC
  • 456551408
  • SCSB-10566734
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library