First edition of Galileo's last and greatest work; it is the first modern textbook of physics and the foundation of modern mechanics. "The two sciences with which the book principally deals are the engineering science of strength of materials and the mathematical science of kinematics… Galileo's Two New Sciences underlies modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution." --Dictionary of Scientific Biography, V, p.245.

"Mathematicians and physicists of the later seventeenth century, Isaac Newton among the...[ Read more ]

First edition of Galileo's last and greatest work; it is the first modern textbook of physics and the foundation of modern mechanics. "The two sciences with which the book principally deals are the engineering science of strength of materials and the mathematical science of kinematics… Galileo's Two New Sciences underlies modern physics not only because it contains the elements of the mathematical treatment of motion, but also because most of the problems that came rather quickly to be seen as problems amenable to physical experiment and mathematical analysis were gathered together in this book with suggestive discussions of their possible solution." --Dictionary of Scientific Biography, V, p.245.

"Mathematicians and physicists of the later seventeenth century, Isaac Newton among them, rightly supposed that Galileo had begun a new era in the science of mechanics. It was upon his foundation that Huyens, Newton and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range to the heavenly bodies." --Printing And The Mind Of Man 130.

伽利略最後和最偉大的著作的初版，是物理學第一本現代教科書、現代力學的開山之作。