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Galileo Galilei
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Price: $20.00
Sale Price: $15.00
Galileo Galilei’s earthshaking Sidereus nuncius marked a definitive moment in the Renaissance departure from ancient cosmology and its assumptions. While his contemporaries labored for lifetimes over ponderous folios, Galileo blithely contrived his sensibly scaled Starry Messenger. Hefting more intellectual freight within its mere fifty-six pages than was borne by many a blackletter behemoth of the day, Galileo’s slim volume comprises a list of some of the most important scientific discoveries ever made.
Using his own version of the newly invented telescope (capable of magnifying by thirty times), he discovered and here described a multitude of stars in constellations and in the Milky Way, invisible to the naked eye; mountains, valleys, and craters on the surface of the Moon (previously considered ideally smooth and polished); and four unknown moons of Jupiter, powerful evidence for the heliocentric system of Copernicus. Sidereus nuncius is the foundation of modern observational astronomy.
Features:
-Commentary by Albert van Helden, director of the Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University
-Searchable, cross-linked English translation of the Latin text
-Searchable live text
-Supplementary essay on Latin abbreviations
-Magnify up to 800%
Specifications:
-Digital images of every page of this rare book, cover to cover, in full color, presented as uncropped spreads
-Print and Thumbnails files for creating printed references
-Adobe Reader 4.0 with Search software
-PDF file on CD-ROM with all of Adobe Reader’s viewing, navigation, and search features
-Octavo Digital Guide and Help files
Requirements:
- Adobe Reader 5.0 or later
- Windows PC with Pentium processor running Windows 95 or later
- Macintosh Power Mac running OS 9.2, or OS X 10.1 or later. Linux 2.2 kernel on X86 computer
- Color Monitor (15" or larger, capable of displaying millions of colors recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
The original book imaged for this digital edition: 8 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (206 x 159 mm)
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