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ISBN: 1157727980 ISBN-13: 9781157727989 Publisher: Books LLC OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Chapters: 1638 Architecture, 1638 Books, 1638 Operas, 1638 Paintings, 1638 Plays, 1638 Treaties, Two New Sciences, Luminalia, the Royal Master, the Lady's Trial, Treaty of Hartford, Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book, the Lady With a Fan, 1638 in Literature, the Goblins, Deane Winthrop House, Kandyan Treaty of 1638, Treaty of Hamburg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze, 1638) was Galileo's final book and a sort of scientific testament covering much of his work in physics over the preceding thirty years. Unlike the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, it was not published with a license from the Inquisition; after the heresy trial based on the earlier book, the Roman Inquisition had banned publication of any work by Galileo, including any he might write in the future. After the failure of attempts to publish the work in France, Germany, or Poland, it was picked up by Lowys Elsevier in Leiden, The Netherlands, where the writ of the Inquisition was of little account (see House of Elzevir). The same three men as in the Dialogue carry on the discussion, but they have changed. Simplicio, in particular, is no longer the stubborn and rather dense Aristotelian; to some extent he represents the thinking of Galileo's early years, as Sagredo represents his middle period. Salviati remains the spokesman for Galileo. The sciences named in the title are the strength of materials and the motion of objects. Galileo worked on an additional section on the force of percussion, but was not able to complete it to his own satisfaction. The discussion begins with a demonstration of the reasons that a large structure proporti...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=26847 |