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Galileo’s Major Works<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Book<\/th>Subject<\/th>Contribution<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1610<\/td>Sidereus nuncius<\/u> [Sidereal Messenger]<\/td>Telescopic observations.<\/td>Qualitative observations of the stars, moon, Venus, moons of Jupiter, and the 'handles' on Saturn were polemical ammunition for Copernicanism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1613<\/td>Lettere sulle macchie solari<\/u>
\n[Letters on sun spots]<\/td>		Telescopic observations and mathematical analysis of sunspots.<\/td>Demonstration of solar 'imperfections', axial rotation, and contiguous nature of sunspots.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1615<\/td>Lettera a Madama Cristina<\/u>
\n[Letters to the Grand Duchess
\nChristina]<\/td>		Science and religion;
\nphilosophy of science.<\/td>		Attempt to seperate scientific concerns from theological dogma; the strengths and limits of scientific inquiry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1623<\/td>Il saggiatore<\/u> [The Assayer]<\/td>Philosophy of science; wide discussion of troublesome physical phenomena.<\/td>Polemic on the nature of scientific investigation, particularly astronomical phenomena, based on observation & descriptive mathematics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1632<\/td>Dialogo<\/u> [Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World]<\/td>Cosmology in the broadest sense; Copernicanism; kinematics.<\/td>Brilliant literary polemic against Aristotelians in favor of Copernicus and the physics of a moving earth: inertia, relativity, and conservation of motion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1638<\/td>Discorsi<\/u> [Discourse on the
\nTwo New Sciences]<\/td>		Terrestrial kinematics; theory of matter, strength of materials.<\/td>Mathematical (kinematic) demonstration and systematization of the science of motion and a discussion of the strength of materials.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-science","category-study-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}