Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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| - | + | The '''''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems''''' (''Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo'') was a 1632 [[Italian language]] book by [[Galileo Galilei]] comparing the [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernican]] system with the traditional [[Ptolemy|Ptolemaic]] system. It was translated into Latin as ''Systema cosmicum'' in 1635 by [[Matthias Bernegger]]. | |
| - | * [[March 31]] – [[Greek War of Independence]]: Start of [[Chios Massacre]], during which 20,000 [[Greeks]] on the island of [[Chios]] are slaughtered by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] troops and 23,000 exiled. | + | |
| - | * [[July 3]] – [[Charles Babbage]] publishes a proposal for a "[[difference engine]]" | + | |
| - | * [[July 31]] – The last public [[Flagellation|whipping]] is carried out in [[Edinburgh]]. | + | |
| - | * [[Egyptian hieroglyph|Hieroglyphs]] are deciphered by [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] and [[Jean-François Champollion]], using the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | + | |
| - | * [[Galileo Galilei]]'s [[Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems|''Dialogue'']] is taken off the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of banned books. | + | |
| - | == Births == | + | |
| - | * [[May 26]] – [[Edmond de Goncourt]], French writer (d. [[1896]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 24]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (d. [[1888]]) | + | |
| - | * [[December 27]] – [[Louis Pasteur]], French microbiologist and chemist (d. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[George Lippard]] (1822-1854) | + | |
| - | == Deaths == | + | |
| - | * [[June 25]] – [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], German Romantic author (b. [[1776]]) | + | |
| - | * [[July 8]] – [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], English poet (b. [[1792]]) | + | |
| - | * [[August 12]] – [[Rodolphe Bresdin]] (1822-1885) | + | |
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The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated into Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger.
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