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by Galileo Galilei,Thomas Salusbury
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ISBN: 0486446425 Dover Publications Price: $36.00 |
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This provocative 1612 essay outraged the author's contemporaries by challenging Aristotelian physics and by asserting that sunspots are actual spots on the surface of the sun or in its atmosphere, rather than satellites. This edition of the landmark work features an informative Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and an Index.
Table of Contents for Discourse on Bodies in Water
| Introduction | |||||||
| Text of Galileo's Discourse | |||||||
| Textual Corrections and Emendations | |||||||
| Explanatory Notes | |||||||
| Index |