The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
Document Type
Monograph
Publication Date
7-31-2019
Publisher
Routledge Taylor and Francis
Publisher Location
New York, NY
First page number:
386
Abstract
The publication in 1632 of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the ‘scientific revolution’ and helped Galileo become the ‘father of modern science’. The Dialogue contains Galileo’s mature synthesis of astronomy, physics, and methodology, and a critical confirmation of Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s motion. However, the book also led Galileo to stand trial with the Inquisition, in what became known as ‘the greatest scandal in Christendom’.
Disciplines
Philosophy
Language
English
Repository Citation
Finocchiaro, M. A.
(2019).
The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue.
386.
New York, NY: Routledge Taylor and Francis.
