Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Galileo’s life and works
* New introductions, specially written for this collection, by Professor Kenneth Richard Seddon, OBE (QUILL, The Queen’s University of Belfast)
* Features Galileo’s major works, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features four biographies – discover Galileo’s intriguing life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Books
THE STARRY MESSENGER
LETTER TO THE GRAND DUCHESS CHRISTINA
DISCOURSE ON FLOATING BODIES
DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE TWO CHIEF WORLD SYSTEMS
DISCOURSES AND MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATIONS RELATING TO TWO NEW SCIENCES
The Biographies
LIFE OF GALILEO by Sir David Brewster
THE TRIAL OF GALILEO by A. Mézières
GALILEO by Robert S. Ball
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: GALILEO GALILIEI