by Galileo Galilei, Antonio (h) Beltrán Marí · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420653495
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This book is a dialogue between characters representing different points of view on the cosmological systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus. Galileo Galilei presents arguments in favor of the Copernican system, challenging the traditional geocentric view. The work explores concepts of physics and astronomy, and promotes the scientific method and observation as tools to understand the universe.
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science.
