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Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about The Starry Messenger and Systems of the World
Stillman Drake
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| #3476636 in Books | 1983-07-01 | | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.80 x6.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Reconstructing Galileo's thinking|By Levana Taylor|This is a really nice way to accompany the text of the Starry Messenger with discussions of the methods Galileo used to make the observations; errors and their causes; follow-up observations that Galileo made after the book was hastily published; and contemporaries' responses to it. The "dialogue" is a little stilted, but real|From the Back Cover|Drawing on Galileo's scientific working papers and the letters and notebooks of his colleagues, Drake presents and imaginative Galilean dialogue using the text of the Starry Messenger as a departure point for discussions of appropriate scient
Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The discovery of the "Medicean stars" (the satellites of Jupiter) was pronounced a hoax, an optical illusion, a logical and theological impossibility. Stillman Drake, one of the world's foremost Galileo scholars, recreates in Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics the f...
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