title: The Universe of Galileo and Newton (A Horizon Caravel Book)
author: American Heritage Publishing Company
description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket.
zlib_text:  
  GALILEO 
  versus 
  THE  GEOCENTRIC  THEORY 
  OF  THE  UNIVERSE 
   
   
  by 
  N. Martin Gwynne 
   
   
   
  Riverview      Arthurstown      New Ross      Co. Wexford     Ireland 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
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  Although this essay is self-contained, it is 
  also to be the third part of a trilogy of which the 
  other two parts are called Sir Isaac Newton and 
  Modern Astronomy and Einstein and Modern Physics. 
  In consequence, there are frequent cross-
  references between this essay and the other two, 
  which make it, while certainly not necessary, 
  nevertheless obviously desirable that all three 
  parts of the trilogy be read in conjunction with 
  each other.  The cross-references do not affect 
  the argument of the essay. 
   
  Very grateful acknowledgement indeed is 
  given to the late Mr Arthur Koestler and to 
  Professor James A. Coleman for their generous 
  permission to quote extensively from their 
  respective books The Sleepwalkers and Relativi