Monday August 20, 2001
Experiment #45330
In the spirit of not depriving ourselves of seeing, I've decided to take us to the New York Public Library, where with much finagling, and false id's I've set an appointment for the Humanities, Rare Books Hall. I'm taking you to see Galileo's 458 page masterpiece Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo. First edition, 1,000 copies printed in Fiorenza, Gio: Batista Landini, 1632. Suppressed by the Inquisition in 1633. The full title of the book describes in detail what the book is about. In short.
Dialogue
of
Galileo Galilei, Lycean
Special Mathematician of the University of Pisa
And Philosopher and Chief Mathematician
of the Most Serene
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Where, in the meeting of four days, there is a discussion
concerning the two
Chief Systems of the World,
Ptolemaic and Copernican,
Propounding inconclusively the philosophical and physical reasons
as much for one side as for the other.