Easton Press Galileo Galilei books:
Galileo Galilei - Library of Great Lives - Ludovico Geymonat - 1990
Dialougues Concerning Two New Sciences - 1999
Franklin Library Galileo Galilei books:
Works of Galileo Galilei, William Gilbert and William Harvey - Great Books of the Western World - 1984
Dialougues Concerning Two New Sciences
Dialogues
Concerning Two New Sciences Galileo Galilei The Discourses and
Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Italian:
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche Intorno a Due Nuove Scienze,
published in 1638 was Galileo's final book and a scientific testament
covering much of his work in physics over the preceding thirty years.
FOR more than a century English speaking students have been placed in
the anomalous position of hearing Galileo constantly referred to as the
founder of modern physical science, without having any chance to read,
in their own language, what Galileo himself has to say. Archimedes has
been made available by Heath; Huygens' Light has been turned into
English by Thompson, while Motte has put the Principia of Newton back
into the language in which it was conceived. To render the Physics of
Galileo also accessible to English and American students is the purpose
of the following translation. The last of the great creators of the
Renaissance was not a prophet without honor in his own time; for it was
only one group of his country-men that failed to appreciate him. Even
during his life time, his Mechanics had been rendered into French by one
of the leading physicists of the world, Mersenne. Within twenty-five
years after the death of Galileo, his Dialogues on Astronomy, and those
on Two New Sciences, had been done into English by Thomas Salusbury and
were worthily printed in two handsome quarto volumes. The Two New
Sciences, which contains practically all that Galileo has to say on the
subject of physics, issued from the English press in 1665. It is
supposed that most of the copies were destroyed in the great London fire
which occurred in the year following. We are not aware of any copy in
America: even that belonging to the British Museum is an imperfect one.
Again in 1730 the Two New Sciences was done into English by Thomas
Weston; but this book, now nearly two centuries old, is scarce and
expensive. Moreover, the literalness with which this translation was
made renders many passages either ambiguous or unintelligible to the
modern reader. Other than these two, no English version has been made.
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