The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 : : Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler.
The appearance of three comets in the autumn of 1618 touched off a controversy of such proportions that its effects are still inextricably associated with some of the most dramatic events marking the dawn of our modern era. This volume contains the principal works, in English translation, that were...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1960 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 22 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- On the Three Comets of the Year 1618. An Astronomical Disputation on the Three Comets of the year 1618
- Discourse on the Comets
- The Astronomical Balance
- Letter to Tarquinio Galluzzi
- The Assayer
- Appendix to the Hyperaspistes
- Notes
- INDEX