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Galileo Galilei Author

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Albert Van Helden is professor emeritus of history at Rice University and the University of Utrecht. He is translator and coeditor of On Sunspots, also available from the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The Origins of the Telescope.

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology cover

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

5 authors - Paperback

£16.99

The Essential Galileo cover

The Essential Galileo

Galileo Galilei - Hardback

£42.99

Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée. Traduit d'Italien En François (Éd.1639) cover

Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée. Traduit d'Italien En François (Éd.1639)

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£16.00

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition cover

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£30.00

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences cover

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

3 authors - Hardback

£26.58

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger cover

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£16.00

Dialogues concerning two new sciences cover

Dialogues concerning two new sciences

Galileo Galilei - Hardback

£17.57

Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, By Galileo Galilei With an appendix concerning the center of gravity. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston cover

Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, By Galileo Galilei With an appendix concerning the center of gravity. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£18.99

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences cover

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

3 authors - Paperback

£13.00

A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II cover

A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II

Galileo Galilei - Hardback

£39.90

Dialogues concerning two new sciences cover

Dialogues concerning two new sciences

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£11.61

On Sunspots cover

On Sunspots

2 authors - Paperback

£45.00

The Private Life of Galileo cover

The Private Life of Galileo

3 authors - Paperback

£30.50

Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. By Galileo Galilei, With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. The second edition. cover

Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. By Galileo Galilei, With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. The second edition.

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£18.99

Dialog über die beiden hauptsächlichsten Weltsysteme, das Ptolemäische und das Kopernikanische cover

Dialog über die beiden hauptsächlichsten Weltsysteme, das Ptolemäische und das Kopernikanische

2 authors - Paperback

£46.90

Galileo on the World Systems cover

Galileo on the World Systems

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£29.00

Galileo's Dream. by the Author of Job, or the Gospel Preached to the Patriarchs [i.E. Mrs. Walter Birch], Etc. cover

Galileo's Dream. by the Author of Job, or the Gospel Preached to the Patriarchs [i.E. Mrs. Walter Birch], Etc.

2 authors - Paperback

£12.99

The Essential Galileo cover

The Essential Galileo

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£15.99

Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée Où Il Est Traité de la Proportion Des Mouvements cover

Les Nouvelles Pensées de Galilée Où Il Est Traité de la Proportion Des Mouvements

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£18.00

Mathematische Demonstrationen über die Mechanik und die Fallgesetze cover

Mathematische Demonstrationen über die Mechanik und die Fallgesetze

2 authors - Paperback

£19.50

Unterredungen und mathematische Demonstrationen cover

Unterredungen und mathematische Demonstrationen

2 authors - Paperback

£19.90

Unterredungen und mathematische Demonstrationen cover

Unterredungen und mathematische Demonstrationen

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£20.50

Mathematical Discourses Concerning two new Sciences Relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, By Galileo Galilei With an Appendix Concerning the Center of Gravity. Done Into English From the Italian, by Tho. Weston cover

Mathematical Discourses Concerning two new Sciences Relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, By Galileo Galilei With an Appendix Concerning the Center of Gravity. Done Into English From the Italian, by Tho. Weston

Galileo Galilei - Hardback

£26.95

Mathematical Discourses Concerning two new Sciences Relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. By Galileo Galilei, With an Appendix Concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. The Second Edition cover

Mathematical Discourses Concerning two new Sciences Relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. By Galileo Galilei, With an Appendix Concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. The Second Edition

Galileo Galilei - Hardback

£26.95

A Discourse Presented To the Most Serene Don Cosimo II cover

A Discourse Presented To the Most Serene Don Cosimo II

Galileo Galilei - Paperback

£19.90