Landini, Giovanni Battista
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Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems), (publisher) — 1632
In this book Galileo compared the Earth-centred Ptolemaic and Sun-centred Copernican systems. He wrote in Italian, rather than the Latin of scholars, to reach a wider audience. Galileo clearly favoured the Copernican system, but he misjudged the reception the book ... read more