Mathematical Disquisitions The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo Galilei, who came into conflict with Scheiner over the discovery of sunspots, devoted numerous pages within his famous 1632 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican to ridiculing...
Mathematical Disquisitions The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones ...
Mathematical Disquisitions The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo Galilei, who came into conflict with Scheiner over the discovery of sunspots, devoted numerous pages within his famous 1632 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican to ridiculing...
Mathematical Disquisitions The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones ...