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Galilei, Galileo. Galileo on the World System: A New Abridged Translation and Guide. Translated and edited by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 425 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95--For close to fifty years the University of California Press has supplied us with an unabridged translation by Stillman Drake of Galileo's most famous work, his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, first published in Florence, partly ...