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The Sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei, and a part of the preface to Kepler's Dioptrics. Waterloo Place, London: Oxford and Cambridge, January 1880. 148 pp. ISBN 9781151499646. Stillman Drake. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, includes translation of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius. Doubleday: Anchor, 1957. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0385092395.
Starry Messenger, about Galileo Galilei, is a children's picture book that was written and illustrated by Peter Sís. And designed by art director, Lilian Rosenstreich in 1996. It is a 1997 Caldecott Honor book. Through the use of his illustrations, Peter Sis documents different stages of life of the widely acknowledged scientist Galileo Galilei.
Galileo began his telescopic observations in the later part of 1609, and by March 1610 was able to publish a small book, The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius), describing some of his discoveries: mountains on the Moon, lesser moons in orbit around Jupiter, and the resolution of what had been thought to be very cloudy masses in the sky (nebulae) into collections of stars too faint to see ...
The Assayer (Italian: Il saggiatore) is a book by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October 1623. It is generally considered to be one of the pioneering works of the scientific method, first broaching the idea that the book of nature is to be read with mathematical tools rather than those of scholastic philosophy, as generally held at the time.
Faculty Homepage of Nick Wilding; Library Blog der Georgia State University, GSU Faculty Member Uncovers Fake Book Sold By Corrupt Library Director Nick Wilding speaks about Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius" at the Linda Hall Library, focusing on the fine paper, presentation copy of the Venice, 1610 printing of Sidereus with Galileo's manuscript corrections] in Conversing with the Starry ...
The Starry Messenger – Galileo's universe—and the implications of his trial on the shift to "northern" science. The Majestic Clockwork – Explores Newton and Einstein's laws. The Drive for Power – The Industrial Revolution and the effect on everyday life. The Ladder of Creation – Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species.
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Kepler responded enthusiastically with a short published reply, Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo [Conversation with the Starry Messenger]. He endorsed Galileo's observations and offered a range of speculations about the meaning and implications of Galileo's discoveries and telescopic methods, for astronomy and optics as well as cosmology and ...