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The Publication In 1632 Of Galileo?s Dialogue On The Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic And Copernican Marked A Crucial Moment In The?scientific Revolution? And Helped Galileo Become The?father Of Modern Science?. The Dialogue Contains Galileo?s Mature Synthesis Of Astronomy, Physics, And Methodology, And A Critical Confirmation Of Copernicus?s Hypothesis Of The Earth?s Motion. However, The Book Also Led Galileo To Stand Trial With The Inquisition, In What Became Known As?the Greatest Scandal In Christendom? Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. I Preliminaries To Reading The Dialogue -- 1. General Relevance -- 2. Intellectual Background -- 2.1. Cosmology -- 2.2. Physics -- 2.3. Astronomy -- 3. Historical Context -- 3.7. Copernicus's Innovation -- 3.2. Copernican Controversy -- 3.3. Galileo's Pursuit Of A Copernican Research Program -- 3.4. Theological Controversy And Condemnation Of Copernicanism -- 3.5. Trial And Condemnation Of Galileo -- Pt. Ii Main Argument In The Dialogue -- 4. Day I: Similarity Of Earth And Heaven -- Ia1. Perfection And Three-dimensionality Of The World (dml 9-75) -- Ia2. Aristotle's Doctrine Of Two Natural Motions (dml 15-20) -- Ia3. A More Coherent Concept Of Natural Motion (dml 20-36) -- Ia4. Geocentric Argument From Natural Motion (dml 36-43) -- Ia5. Contrariety And Change (dml 43-53) -- Ia6. Observation Of Heavenly Changes (dml 53-66) -- Ia7. Teleology And Anthropocentrism (dml 67-71). Ib1. Similarities Between Earth And Moon (dml 71-82) -- Ib2. Roughness Of The Lunar Surface (dml 82-100) -- Ib3. Moon's Secondary Light (dml 100-113) -- Ib4. Differences Between Earth And Moon (dml 113-21) -- 5. Day Ii: Earth's Daily Axial Rotation -- Iia. Simplicity Arguments For Terrestrial Rotation (dml 123-55) -- Iib1. Geostatic Argument From Violent Motion (dml 155-58) -- Iib2. Two-motions Argument (dml 158-61) -- Iib3. Vertical Fall (dml 161-64) -- Iib4. Ship's Mast Experiment (dml 164-79) -- Iib5. Conservation And Composition Of Motion (dml 779-95j -