Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo

by Christopher M. Graney

Book Overview

Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo Galilei, who came into conflict with Scheiner over the discovery of sunspots, devoted numerous pages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268102422
• ISBN13: 9780268102425
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"