[Dialogo] Systema cosmicum … in quo quatuor dialogis, de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, ptolemaico & copernicano, utriusq; rationibus philosophicis ac naturalibus indefinite propositis, disseritur … Accessit appendix gemina, qua SS. Scripturæ dicta cum terræ mobilitate conciliantur.
[Leiden &] Strassburg: David Hautt for Elzevir, 1635. First Latin edition of the Dialogo, Galileo’s celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system, the most notorious banned book of the 17th century. Written in dialogue form, it “was designed both as an appeal to the great public and..... More
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