Title: Galileo, title page from Systema Cosmicum, Augustae Treboc. [Strasbourg], 1635
Date: 1635
Original Format: photograph: negative
Description: The first Latin edition of Galileo’s Dialogo (Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems), prepared by the famous Dutch printer Elsevier but printed in Strasbourg. Not mentioned on the title page is the translater, Matthias Bernegger, who appended to the text an extract from Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (published 1609) and a letter by Paolo Antonio Foscarini. The additions presented arguments to demonstrate that the Copernican system did not conflict with the Bible. The Decree of Condemnation under which Galileo stood in Italy had not been published in France, so his work could be printed there. This Latin edition was later brought out in Leiden and London.
Collection: Rare Books
Caltech Archives ID: RB-GG1635-3
