Galileo Galilei's 1632 "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is a treatise comparing the Copernican and Ptolemaic models of the universe. This work is significant for its defense of heliocentrism and its role in Galileo's trial by the Inquisition.
Sources for Galileo Galilei — Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei — Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems in Physics
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- Albert Einstein — Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
- Albert Einstein — Time, Space, and Gravitation (1919)
- Lord Rayleigh — The Theory of Sound (1877)
- Isaac Newton — Opticks (1704)
- Lucretius — On the Nature of Things (c. 50 BCE)
- Marie Curie — Radioactive Substances (1903)
- Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light (1690)
- Michael Faraday — Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839)
- James Clerk Maxwell — A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
- Heinrich Hertz — Electric Waves (1893)
- Ernst Mach — The Science of Mechanics (1883)
- Wilhelm Röntgen — Röntgen Rays (1899)
- Ibn al-Haytham — Book of Optics (Kitāb al-Manāẓir) (c. 1021 CE)