The Sidereal Messenger Of Galileo Galilei 1610

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 154 pages
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Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226320120

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Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger by Galileo Galilei Pdf

The “revolutionary, scintillating book” in which Galileo revealed his wondrous astronomical discoveries, with accompanying notes and historical context (Metascience). Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, “unheard of through the ages,” revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses” that appeared in Europe in 1608, and in the autumn of 1609 he pointed his new instrument at the sky, discovering astonishing sights: mountains on the moon, fixed stars invisible to the naked eye, individual stars in the Milky Way, and four moons around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries changed the terms of the debate between geocentric and heliocentric cosmology and helped ensure the eventual acceptance of the Copernican planetary system. Albert Van Helden’s beautifully rendered and eminently readable translation is based on the Venice 1610 edition’s original Latin text. An introduction, conclusion, and copious notes place the book in its historical and intellectual context, and a new preface, written by Van Helden, highlights recent discoveries in the field, including the detection of a forged copy of Sidereus Nuncius, and new understandings about the political complexities of Galileo’s work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476966617

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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei (1610) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 111 pages
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Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9781465607928

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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries by Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler Pdf

In 1609, Galileo, then Professor of Mathematics at Padua, in the service of the Venetian Republic, heard from a correspondent at Paris of the invention of a telescope, and set to work to consider how such an instrument could be made. The result was his invention of the telescope known by his name, and identical in principle with the modern opera-glass. In a maritime and warlike State, the advantages to be expected from such an invention were immediately recognised, and Galileo was rewarded with a confirmation of his Professorship for life, and a handsome stipend, in recognition of his invention and construction of the first telescope seen at Venice. In his pamphlet, The Sidereal Messenger, here translated, Galileo relates how he came to learn the value of the telescope for astronomical research; and how his observations were rewarded by numerous discoveries in rapid succession, and at length by that of Jupiter’s satellites. Galileo at once saw the value of this discovery as bearing upon the establishment of the Copernican system of astronomy, which had met with slight acceptance, and indeed as yet had hardly any recommendation except that of greater simplicity. Kepler had just published at Prague his work on the planet Mars (Commentaria de motibus Stellæ Martis), on which he had been engaged apparently for eight years; there he heard of Galileo’s discoveries, and at length was invited by Galileo himself, through a common friend, Giuliano de’ Medici, ambassador of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, Cosmo de’ Medici II., to the Emperor Rudolph II., to correspond with Galileo on the subject of these discoveries. The Emperor also requested his opinion, and Kepler accordingly examined Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger in a pamphlet, entitled A Discussion with the Sidereal Messenger(Florence, 1610). In this Discussion Kepler gives reasons for accepting Galileo’s observations—although he was not able to verify them from want of a telescope—and entirely supports Galileo’s views and conclusions, adducing his own previous speculations, or pointing out, as in the case of Galileo’s idea of earth-light on the moon, the previous conception of the same explanation of the phenomenon. He rejects, however, Galileo’s explanation of the copper colour of the moon in eclipses. Kepler ends by expressing unbounded enthusiasm at the discovery of Jupiter’s satellites, and the argument it furnishes in support of the Copernican theory. Soon after, in 1611, Kepler published another pamphlet, his Narrative, giving an account of actual observations made in verification of Galileo’s discoveries by himself and several friends, whose names he gives, with a telescope made by Galileo, and belonging to Ernest, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne. Kepler and his friends saw the lunar mountains and three of the satellites of Jupiter, but failed to make out any signs of the ring of Saturn corresponding to the imperfect description of Galileo.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000015314024

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Sidereus nuncius by Galileo Galilei Pdf

Author : Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547602774

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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei,Johannes Kepler Pdf

The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler is a groundbreaking work that chronicles Galileo's astronomical discoveries. Accompanied by Kepler's Dioptrics preface, this work offers readers a firsthand account of the revolutionary findings that reshaped our understanding of the cosmos.

Author : Galileo Galilei,John W. Hessler,Daniel De Simone,Owen Gingerich,Peter K. Machamer,David Marshall Miller,Paul Needham,Eileen Adair Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1610
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 1929154496

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The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610 by Galileo Galilei,John W. Hessler,Daniel De Simone,Owen Gingerich,Peter K. Machamer,David Marshall Miller,Paul Needham,Eileen Adair Reeves Pdf

A facsimile of a copy of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius in the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei Pdf

"In this Discussion Kepler gives reasons for accepting Galileo’s observations—although he was not able to verify them from want of a telescope—and entirely supports Galileo’s views and conclusions, adducing his own previous speculations, or pointing out, as in the case of Galileo’s idea of earth-light on the moon, the previous conception of[ix] the same explanation of the phenomenon. He rejects, however, Galileo’s explanation of the copper colour of the moon in eclipses. Kepler ends by expressing unbounded enthusiasm at the discovery of Jupiter’s satellites, and the argument it furnishes in support of the Copernican theory." -Introduction

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 196?
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OCLC:219442917

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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei Pdf

Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 0329040820

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Starry Messenger by Peter Sís Pdf

Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798566304144

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The Sidereal Messenger (Illustrated Original Edition) by Galileo Galilei Pdf

Galileo Galilei had seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father's urging he instead enrolled at the University of Pisa for a medical degree.[20] In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. It seemed, by comparison with his heartbeat, that the chandelier took the same amount of time to swing back and forth, no matter how far it was swinging. When he returned home, he set up two pendulums of equal length and swung one with a large sweep and the other with a small sweep and found that they kept time together. It was not until Christiaan Huygens almost one hundred years later, however, that the tautochrone nature of a swinging pendulum was used to create an accurate timepiece.[21] To this point, he had deliberately been kept away from mathematics (since a physician earned so much more than a mathematician), but upon accidentally attending a lecture on geometry, he talked his reluctant father into letting him study mathematics and natural philosophy instead.[21] He created a thermoscope (forerunner of the thermometer) and in 1586 published a small book on the design of a hydrostatic balance he had invented (which first brought him to the attention of the scholarly world). Galileo also studied disegno, a term encompassing fine art, and in 1588 attained an instructor position in the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, teaching perspective and chiaroscuro. Being inspired by the artistic tradition of the city and the works of the Renaissance artists, Galileo acquired an aesthetic mentality. While a young teacher at the Accademia, he began a lifelong friendship with the Florentine painter Cigoli, who included Galileo's lunar observations in one of his paintings. Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages. CONTENTSTo the Most Serene Cosmo De' Medici, The Second, Fourth Grand-Duke of TuscanyivThe Astronomical MessengerixIntroduction.1Galileo's account of the invention of his telescope.3Galileo's first observation with his telescope.4Method of determining the magnifying power of the telescope.5Method of measuring small angular distances between heavenly bodies by the size of the aperture of the telescope.6The Moon. Ruggedness of its surface. Existence of lunar mountains and valleys.8The lunar spots are suggested to be possibly seas bordered by ranges of mountains.13Description of a lunar crater, perhaps Tycho.15Reasons for believing that there is a difference of constitution in various parts of the Moon's surface.16Explanation of the eveness of the illuminated part of the circumfrence of the Moon's orb by the analogy of terrestrial phenomena, or a possible lunar atmosphere.18Calculation to show that the height of some lunar mountains exceeds four Italian miles (22,000 British feet).22The faint illumination of the Moon's disc about new-moon explained to be due to earth-light.25Stars. Their appearance in the telescope30

Author : Horst Bredekamp
Publisher : Akademie Verlag
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3050050950

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Galileo's O by Horst Bredekamp Pdf

V. 1 is a detailed analysis of a previously unknown proof copy of the first edition of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius (1610), in which watercolor drawings appear in place of the etchings of the published edition, consigned in 2005 to the antiquarian bookselling firm of Martayan Lan (New York, New York). V. 2 is an account of the composition and production of the edition, based on analysis of extant copies (a census of which is included) as well as the New York proof copy. V. 3 was written in response to the discovery, soon after the publication of v. 2, that the proof copy was in fact an elaborate forgery produced between 2003 and 2005 under the direction of Marino Massimo de Caro, as first reported in the article "A very rare book," by Nicholas Schmidle, in The New Yorker issue of 16 December 2013. V. 4, in German, is a heavily revised edition of Horst Bredekamp's Galilei der Künstler (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007), which had included a chapter on the then unrecognized forgery.

Author : Galileo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1957-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385092395

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Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Galileo Pdf

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.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Science History Publications/USA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015084135063

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Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, Or, A Sidereal Message by Galileo Galilei Pdf

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.

Author : Roberto Buonanno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319003009

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The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher by Roberto Buonanno Pdf

In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author documents Kircher’s often intuitive work in many areas, including translating the hieroglyphs, developing sundials, and inventing the magic lantern, and explains how Kircher was a forerunner of Darwin in suggesting that animal species evolve. Galileo’s work on scales, telescopes, and sun spots is mapped and discussed, and care is taken to place his discoveries within their cultural environment. While Galileo is without doubt the “winner” in the comparison with Kircher, the latter achieved extraordinary insights by unconventional means. For all Galileo’s fine work, the author believes that scientists do need to regain the power of dreaming, vindicating Kirchner’s view.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603840507

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The Essential Galileo by Galileo Galilei Pdf

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