Galileo Galilei: a biography and inquiry into his philosophy of science. Foreword by Professor Giorgio de Santillana. Text translated from the Italian with additional notes and appendix by Stillman Drake

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8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.. Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.