Dialogo Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano (dialogue)

Galilei, Galileo

Verlag: Giovanni Batista Landini, Florence, 1632

Beschreibung

First Edition, First Printing of GALILEO'S CELEBRATED DEFENSE OF THE COPERNICAN VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Eight years after Pope Paul V forbade Galileo to teach Copernican theory, Pope Urban VIII granted him permission to discuss Copernican astronomy in a book. Galileo's use of the formal dialogue allowed him to explore his Copernican theories fully within the rubric of the "equal and impartial discussion" required by Pope Urban VIII. The work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence. it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, willfulness, and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and, above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense in philosophy, that is, in physics. The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace" (PMM). Pope Urban VIII immediately convened a special commission to examine the book and make recommendations. In depicting the Pope as the simple-minded Aristotelian Simplicius, Galileo brought upon himself arrest, trial by the Inquisition and life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to permanent house arrest, while the printing of any of his works was forbidden. A wonderful copy bound in early 18th-century Italian vellum. The binding is tight and the pages are clean with an early Italian hand signature on pastedown. This scarce First Edition has Woodcut diagrams lacking etched frontispiece and final blank. A wonderful copy of this 1632 First Edition seldom seen in this beautiful condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000208

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dialogo Dove ne i congressi di quattro ...

Verlag: Giovanni Batista Landini, Florence

Erscheinungsdatum: 1632

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition