Early modern European · 1632
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
In the Third Day, Salviati calls the removal of the planets' stations and regressions 'a very great argument in favour of Copernicus', and says that the Earth's annual motion alone causes the great inequalities in the motion of the five planets. Stations and regressions come more often for Saturn than for Jupiter and more rarely for Mars; for Venus and Mercury he cites Copernicus's construction 'following Apollonius' in De revolutionibus V.35.
- Author
- Galileo Galilei
- Date
- 1632
- Original language
- Italian
- Key term
- stazioni e regressi (stations and regressions)
- Kind
- Theory / model
- Planets
- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Editions
3 editions.
| Year | Edition | © |
|---|---|---|
| 1632 | Galileo Galilei, Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano (Florence: Landini, 1632) | PD |
| 1661 | Thomas Salusbury (trans.), Mathematical Collections and Translations, vol. 1 (London, 1661) | PD |
| 1953 | Stillman Drake (trans.), Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953; 2nd ed. 1967) | © |
Read it
2 digitised copies.
- Full scan of the 1632 Landini first editionSmithsonian Libraries, via Internet ArchivePDOpen ↗
- Italian text of the Third Day (Favaro edition), not yet proofreadItalian WikisourceCC BY-SAOpen ↗
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References
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1543 (manuscript c. 1520–1541) | De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumNicolaus CopernicusMath. astronomy | Me Ve Ma Ju Sa | Math. astronomy |
| c. 1580–1600 | Tycho Brahe's Mars observationsTycho BraheObservation | Ma | Observation |
| 1609 | Astronomia novaJohannes KeplerTheory / model | Ma | Theory / model |
| 28 December 1612 – 28 January 1613 | Galileo's notes recording Neptune as a 'fixed star'Galileo GalileiObservation | Ne | Observation |
| 1647 | Christian AstrologyWilliam LillyAstrological | Me Ve Ma Ju Sa | Astrological |
| presented 7 August 1709 | Cassini's apparent path of MercuryJ. D. CassiniMath. astronomy | Me Ju Sa | Math. astronomy |