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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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- 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
- 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