Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

This is the standard translation of one of the greatest single works by one of Western science's greatest single men, the Renaissance physicist Galileo Galilei. Written near the end of his life, the book had to be published abroad and led to Galileo's condemnation. But he nevertheless considered it to be "superior to everything else of mine published."

Despite the fact that the book encompasses 30 years of highly original experimentation and theorizing on the part of this singular man, it i...