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  • Great Astronomers: Complete Collection (Golden Deer Classics)

    by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, John Flamsteed, John Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, James Bradley, William Parsons, William Rowan Hamilton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Nicolaus Copernicus0, William Herschel1, Golden Deer Classics2, Robert Stawell Ball3 ...
    This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley - Great Astronomers: James Bradley - Great Astronomers: William Herschel - ... Read more

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  • The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries

    by Galileo Galilei & Johannes Kepler ...
    In 1609, Galileo, then Professor of Mathematics at Padua, in the service of the Venetian Republic, heard from a correspondent at Paris of the invention of a telescope, and set to work to consider how such an instrument could be made. The result was his invention of the telescope known by his name, and identical in principle with the modern opera-glass. In a maritime and warlike State, the ... Read more

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  • The Sidereal Messenger (Illustrated Original Edition)

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo Galilei had seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father's urging he instead enrolled at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. It seemed, by comparison with his heartbeat, that the chandelier took the same amount of time ... Read more

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  • Galileo Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences is one of the greatest works in western science. Written by Galileo in the last years of his life, (while under house arrest by the Inquisition for suspected heresy), the book had to be published abroad and eventually led to Galileo's censure.Written as a discussion between a master and two students, it sets forth a series of experiments and ... Read more

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  • Discourse on Floating Bodies

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    As to the first, the last discoveries of Saturn to be tricorporeall, and of the mutations of Figure in Venus, like to those that are seen in the Moon, together with the Consequents depending thereupon, have not so much occasioned the demur, as the investigation of the times of the Conversions of each of the Four Medicean Planets about Jupiter, which I lighted upon in April the year past, 1611, at ... Read more

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  • Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    Translated by Albert Van Helden ...
    The "revolutionary, scintillating book" in which Galileo revealed his wondrous astronomical discoveries, with accompanying notes and historical context (Metascience).Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages," revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo ... Read more

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  • The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

    From Copernicus to Newton

    by Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Isaac Newton ...
    Translated by Aviva Rothman ...
    New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice ... Read more

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  • Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

    by Galileo Galilei ...
    This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science." Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" in 1638 as a sort of magnum opus to a life devoted to scientific experimentation. The book outlines his investigations into physics and ... Read more

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  • The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei

    With the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Discoveries

    by Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler ...
    Translated by Edward Stafford Carlos ...
    The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei: a groundbreaking anthology that navigates the uncharted realms of the cosmos through the revolutionary works of two of the most brilliant minds of the Scientific Revolution, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler. This collection captures the essence of transformative astronomical discoveries and theories that redefined humanity's understanding of the ... Read more

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  • The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook

    Build 18 Innovative Projects with Brain Power

    by Lance Akiyama, Galileo Learning ...
    Series series Junior Engineer
    For kids who like to make cool things, The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook, features fun and easy, step-by-step projects to get young tinkerers making things they never thought possible!Make an automaton, a pneumatic machine, a suspension bridge, a flexible hand, a crash-test car, even a (working) vacuum cleaner! The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook gives parents and kids ages 6 to 10 a ... Read more

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  • The Book of Boar: Bounty Hunter

    by James Galileo ...
    The Book of Boar: Bounty Hunter is a genre-bending, hard-boiled crime thriller with a wicked satirical edge. It tells the extraordinary tale of William 'Boar' Summers, a washed-up-police-detective-turned-fugitive-recovery-agent who sets off in search of a senator's prodigal son and uncovers a sinister conspiracy which leads him on a breakneck ride across a Mytho-modern American landscape and ... Read more

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  • On Sunspots

    by Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner ...
    Translated by Eileen Reeves ...
    Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun. Galileo, on the other hand, countered that the spots were on or near the surface of the Sun itself, and he ... Read more

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