Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Audiobook Libro.fm

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Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic system of the cosmos Published in Florence in 1632 it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition Using the dialogue form Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the earth revolves around the sun The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written A work of supreme clarity and accessibility it remains as accessible now as when it was published This is the definitive text by the University of California Press with Stillman Drakes translation It includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein read by Frank Wilczek Galileos dedication is read by Fabiola Gianotti and the Translators preface is read by Sylvester James Gates