Dialogo Systema Cosmicum In Quo Quatuor Dialogis De Duobus Maximis Mundi Systematibus

by Galileo Galilei

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Leiden & Strassburg: David Hautt for Elzevir, 1635. First Latin edition of the Dialogo, Galileo’s celebrated defence of the Copernican view of the solar system, the most notorious banned book of the 17th century. Written in dialogue form, it “was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence … it is a masterly polemic for the new science. It displays

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