On sunspots
Galileo Galilei (Author), Christoph Scheiner (Author), Eileen Adair Reeves (Translator), Albert Van Helden (Translator)
"A history of the controversy over sunspots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. The material that was added during the printing of the Istoria, the dedication, preface, laudatory poems, and the note from the printer to introduce Scheiner's tracts, have been added in an appendix"-- Provided by publisher
Early works
1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) : illustrations
9780226707174, 9781282902039, 9786612902031, 0226707172, 1282902032, 6612902035
688291765
Introduction
Sunspots before the telescope
Turning the telescope to the sun : Thomas Harriot and Johannes and David Fabricius
Christoph Scheiner
Tres epistolae
Galileo answers Apelles
Galileo's first letter
Galileo's second letter
A more accurate inquiry from Ingolstadt
Accuratior disquisitio
Galileo responds and goes into print
Galileo's third letter
Rematch, 1630-1632
Appendices
Scheiner and Galileo on the nature of the moon
Galileo to Maffeo Cardinal Barberini
Carlo Cardinal Conti to Galileo on scripture
Scheiner's calculation of the transit of Venus
Galileo's demonstrations
Front matter of Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti
English