Galileo’s Rivals

Our very own Chris Graney has a new book! It's called Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Plenty of people have translated the works of Galileo, and many more have read them – in Italy, they're considered an essential part of Italian literature and kids read them when they are in high school. But how many people have actually read the works of Galileo's rivals, especially those whom he specifically calls out in his writings? Chris Graney has... and here he translates and comments on one of the most interesting of these, by Locker. To quote the blurb on the Notre Dame Press site: Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo offers a new English translation of the 1614 Disquisitiones Mathematicae, which Johann Georg Locher wrote under the guidance of the German Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner. The booklet, an anti-Copernican astronomical work, is of interest in large part because Galileo … Continue reading →

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