GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano. Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632.
GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano. Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632.

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GALILÉE, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico e Copernicano. Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632.

In-4 (226 x 160 mm). Titre-frontispice gravé à l'eau-forte par Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) montrant Aristote, Ptolémée et Copernic. Nombreux schémas gravés sur bois dans le texte. (Sans le feuillet blanc Kk4, rousseurs éparses, le frontispice a été réenmargé.) Vélin du XVIIIe siècle, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches jaunes.

ÉDITION ORIGINALE DE L'UN DES LIVRES FONDATEURS DE L'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES.
Le Dialogo marque non seulement l'affirmation décisive de la démarche scientifique, mais il marque une nouvelle conception de l'Homme et du Monde. Prenant partie pour Copernic contre Ptolémée, Galilée s'attira dès lors les foudres de l'Église. "The Dialogo, far more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a common place." (PMM). Dibner 8; PMM 128. Norman 858; Horblit 18c.
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First edition of Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican system. In 1624 the new pope Urban VIII granted Galileo permission to discuss the Copernican system provided that the arguments for the Ptolemaic view were given equal treatment. He executed this order literally in the present dialogue between a Copernican, a Ptolemean and an impartial adjudicator. This form permitted him to present his true view of the Cosmos. The work is a masterly polemic for the new science, designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence. "It displays all the great discoveries in the heavens which the ancients had ignored; it inveighs against the sterility, wilfulness and ignorance of those who defend their systems; it revels in the simplicity of Copernican thought and above all, it teaches that the movement of the earth makes sense to philosophy, that is, in physics... The Dialogo, more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace" (PMM). It caused the author's trial by the inquisition and permanent house arrest. The book was placed on the Index until 1832. Somewhat browned in places, but a large copy with some deckle edges preserved.

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