Infinite Worlds — Set of 3 Books

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1. 
   On the Infinite Universe and Worlds

   The stars are suns, countless earths circle them, and the universe has no edge and no centre. Giordano Bruno said all this in 1584, before the telescope, in On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, here complete in modern English. Sixteen years later he was burned at the stake in Rome; the teaching of many worlds was among the charges against him.

   162 pages

   €6.79
2. 
   The Ecstatic Journey Through the Heavens

   An angel takes a Jesuit scholar in his wings and carries him to the Moon, the planets, the Sun and the fixed stars. Athanasius Kircher, the most famous polymath of 17th-century Rome, published this space voyage in 1656, after Galileo's condemnation, and here it is complete in modern English.

   394 pages

   €10.39
3. 
   Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds: Are the Moon and Planets Inhabited?

   Are the Moon and the planets inhabited? On six autumn evenings in a château park, a young philosopher and a witty Marquise walk beneath the stars and imagine who might live on other worlds: gallant lovers on Venus, a people mad with liveliness on Mercury, slow and solemn folk beneath the Ring of Saturn. Bernard de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Paris, edition of 1687) — complete, in modern English, with the original title page. PDF, 119 pages.

   119 pages

   €6.79