by
Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden, Albert Van Helden
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
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 had ingeniously improved the rudimentary “spyglasses”...