MS Galileo

Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science List Price: $15.25

Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo's symbolic finger for revealing the nature of our universe, our world, and ourselves...

Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides) List Price: $19.95

Discover the wonders of the night sky with this bestselling astronomy guideFor a generation, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky...

Galileis Freundin (German Edition)

Unter der Herrschaft der dekadenten Medici und der machtbesessenen Kirche versucht Caterina Picchena (Aussprache: Pikkéna) ihr Leben selbst zu bestimmen. Ausnehmend hübsch und gebildet zeigt sie sich niemandem leicht gefügig und lehnt sich stets gegen die Ansprüche der herrschenden Clique auf...

El Monasterio de las Almas (Spanish Edition) List Price: $0.99

Una historia de espionaje, intrigas y peligro que se extiende desde el Renacimiento hasta nuestros días, y que gira en torno al conocimiento del que sería el más importante tesoro de toda la humanidad...

The Essential Galileo List Price: $12.00

"Edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro, an international authority on Galileo, this collection makes available to scholars and students an excellent and extensive selection of Galileo's key works from his early career to the end of his life—some in toto and some represented by key selections...

Galileo List Price: $25.95

Four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth - the appearance of the little book is regarded as oneof the greatest moments in the history of science...

Fizz: Nothing is as it seems List Price: $4.95

A YOUNG WOMAN'S QUEST TO UNRAVEL THE UNIVERSEThe future. In response to environmental degradation, the Eco-community sect eschews science and technology, returning an austere agricultural life of nature-worship...

DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE INTORNO A DUE NUOVE SCIENZE (Italian Edition)

SALV. Largo campo di filosofare a gl'intelletti specolativi parmi che porga la frequente pratica del famoso arsenale di voi, Signori Veneziani, ed in particolare in quella parte che mecanica si domanda; atteso che quivi ogni sorte di strumento e di machina vien continuamente posta da numero grande d'artefici, tra i quali, e per l'osservazioni fatte dai loro antecessori, e per quelle che di propria avvertenza vanno continuamente per se stessi facendo, è forza che ve ne siano de i peritissimi e di finissimo discorso...

Galileo and the Magic Numbers List Price: $4.99

Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths.His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, “Truth is not found behind a man’s reputation...

Galileo's Considerations on the Copernican Opinion (Illustrated) List Price: $0.99

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous astronomers and scientists in history. After four years, Galileo had announced to his father that he wanted to be a monk...