The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 - Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler

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List of contents

Introduction

—Stillman Drake

On the Three Comets of the Year 1618

—Horatio Grassi

Discourse on the Comets

—Mario Guiducci

The Astronomical Balance

—Horatio Grassi

Letter to Tarquinio Galluzzi

—Mario Guiducci

The Assayer

—Galileo Galilei

Appendix to the Hyperaspistes

—Johann Kepler

Notes

Index

About the author

Translated by Stillman Drake and C. D. O'Malley

Product details

• Assisted by: Stillman Drake (Editor), C. D. O'Malley (Editor), Stillman Drake (Translation), C D O'Malley (Translation), C. D. O'Malley (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1960
• EAN: 9781512801446
• ISBN: 978-1-5128-0144-6
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 31 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 755 g
• Illustrations: 22 illus.
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)