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 | Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (Updated Edition) by Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake (Editor), Albert Einstein (Foreword), J. L. Heilbron (Introduction), Stephen Jay Gould (Editor), John Heilbron (Introduction) Paperback, 586 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-375-75766-X / 037575766X ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75766-2 / 9780375757662 Galileoâs Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the C | |