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LRI4632362: Frontispice of “” Dialogue on the Two Great Systems of the World”” (dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) commissioned by Pope Urban VIII to the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei dit Galilee (1564-1642) around 1620 and published in 1632. It is a Dialogue between Filippo Salviati, a Florentine supporter of Copernicus, the Venetian mathematician and friend of Galilee Giovan Francesco Sagredo and Simplicio, defending the aristotelican theory. Galilee exhibits for the first time his heliocentric theory of the Universe. Florence, biblioteca nazionale - Frontispiece of “” Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World”” (dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) ordered by Pope Urban VIII to the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei called Galileo (1564-1642) around 1620 and published in 1632, in which he exhibited for the first time his heliocentric theory the universe. Florence, Nazionale biblioteca, Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images