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On sunspots / Galileo Galilei & Christoph Scheiner ; translated and introduced by Eileen Reeves & Albert Van Helden.

"A history of the controversy over sunspots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. The material that was added during the printing of the Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note f...

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Main Authors: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 (Author), Scheiner, Christoph, 1575-1650 (Author)
Other Authors: Reeves, Eileen Adair (Translator), Van Helden, Albert (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Latin
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Sunspots > Early works to 1800.
Sunspots.
Early works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sunspots before the telescope
  • Turning the telescope to the sun : Thomas Harriot and Johannes and David Fabricius
  • Christoph Scheiner
  • Tres epistolae
  • Galileo answers Apelles
  • Galileo's first letter
  • Galileo's second letter
  • A more accurate inquiry from Ingolstadt
  • Accuratior disquisitio
  • Galileo responds and goes into print
  • Galileo's third letter
  • Rematch, 1630-1632
  • Appendices
  • Scheiner and Galileo on the nature of the moon
  • Galileo to Maffeo Cardinal Barberini
  • Carlo Cardinal Conti to Galileo on scripture
  • Scheiner's calculation of the transit of Venus
  • Galileo's demonstrations
  • Front matter of Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti.

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