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A history of the controversy over sun spots 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 Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix

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The University of Chicago Press
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Early works to 1800, Sunspots, Long Now Manual for Civilization

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Sunspots before the telescope
Harriot and Fabricius
Christoph Scheiner
Tres epistolae
Galileo answers
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London
Genre
Early works to 1800

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Dewey Decimal Class
523.7/4
Library of Congress
QB525 .G22 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL23909800M
Internet Archive
onsunspots00gali
ISBN 10
0226707156, 0226707164
ISBN 13
9780226707150, 9780226707167
LCCN
2009042191

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"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 from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix"--

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