Audiobooks narrated by Carlo Rovelli

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the earth revolves around the sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessibility, it remains as accessible now as when it was published. This is the definitive text by the University of California Press, with Stillman Drake’s translation. It includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein, read by Frank Wilczek. Galileo's dedication is read by Fabiola Gianotti, and the Translator’s preface is read by Sylvester James Gates. The book is presented as a series of discussions, over four days, among two philosophers and a layman: Salviati, read by Carlo Rovelli, argues for the Copernican position, presenting Galileo's views, calling him the 'Academician' in honor of Galileo's membership in the Accademia dei Lincei. He is named after Galileo's friend Filippo Salviati. Sagredo, read by Brian Keating, is an intelligent layman who is initially neutral. He is named after Galileo's friend Giovanni Sagredo. Simplicio, read by Lucio Piccirillo, is a dedicated follower of Ptolemy & Aristotle, presents the traditional views and the arguments against the Copernican position. He is supposedly named after Simplicius of Cilicia, a sixth-century commentator on Aristotle. It's believed his name is a double entendre for the Italian for 'simpleton'. Simplicio is based on philosophers Lodovico Colombe, Galileo's opponent, and Cesare Cremonini, who refused to look through the telescope. Download all figures & Illustrations from The Dialogue: https://briankeating.com/Galileo

Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Translator Stillman Drake (Author), Brian Keating, Carlo Rovelli, Fabiola Gianotti, Frank Wilczek, Lucio Piccirillo, Sylvester James Gates (Narrator)

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Helgoland

A Helgoland, spoglia isola nel Mare del Nord, luogo adatto alle idee estreme, nel giugno 1925 il ventitreenne Werner Heisenberg ha avviato quella che, secondo non pochi, è stata la più radicale rivoluzione scientifica di ogni tempo: la fisica quantistica. A distanza di quasi un secolo da quei giorni, la teoria dei quanti si è rivelata sempre più gremita di idee sconcertanti e inquietanti (fantasmatiche onde di probabilità, oggetti lontani che sembrano magicamente connessi fra loro, ecc.), ma al tempo stesso capace di innumerevoli conferme sperimentali, che hanno portato a ogni sorta di applicazioni tecnologiche. Si può dire che oggi la nostra comprensione del mondo si regga su tale teoria, tuttora profondamente misteriosa. In questo libro non solo si ricostruisce, con formidabile limpidezza, l'avventurosa e controversa crescita della teoria dei quanti, rendendo evidenti, anche per chi la ignora, i suoi passaggi cruciali, ma la si inserisce in una nuova visione, dove a un mondo fatto di sostanze si sostituisce un mondo fatto di relazioni, che si rispondono fra loro in un inesauribile gioco di specchi. Visione che induce a esplorare, in una prospettiva stupefacente, questioni fondamentali ancora irrisolte, dalla costituzione della natura a quella di noi stessi, che della natura siamo parte. Foto di Hermann Spurzem (1907-1965)

Carlo Rovelli (Author), Carlo Rovelli (Narrator)

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems. Instant New York Times Bestseller 'One of the year's most entrancing books about science.' The Wall Street Journal 'Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.' The New York Times Book Review This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. CarloRovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. Thebook celebrates the joy of discovery.'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,' Rovelli writes. 'And it's breathtaking.'

Carlo Rovelli (Author), Carlo Rovelli (Narrator)

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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics written and read by Carlo Rovelli. These seven 'short lessons' guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under one hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated best-seller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed. Carlo Rovelli is an eminent physicist with an extraordinary ability to write about complex topics in a lucid, clear prose. His book was top of the bestseller charts in Italy for months and has sold over 200,000 copies since publication in November. He is the head of the Équipe de Gravité Quantique at the Theoretical Physics Department of Aix-Marseille University. It has sold in over a dozen languages.

Carlo Rovelli (Author), Carlo Rovelli (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Carlo Rovelli