Author:Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei
(1564–1642)

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Tuscan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and inventor whose works on astronomy and motion played a prominent role in the scientific revolution

Works

The Ancient and Modern Doctrine of Holy Fathers, and Iudicious Divines, Concerning The rash citation of the Testimony of the Sacred Scripture, in Conclusions meerly Natural, and that may be proved by Sensible Experiments, and Necessary Demonstrations, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, vol. 1 (1661; translated by Thomas Salusbury) (transcription project)
Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass (1606)
Sidereus Nuncius (1610)

(tr.) The Sidereal Messenger (1880), translated by Edward Stafford Carlos

Discorso intorno alle cose che stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono (1612)

(tr.) Discourse on Bodies on or in Water (1663), translated by Thomas Salusbury (transcription project)

Letters on Sunspots (1613)
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (c. 1615) from Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2053 due to Renewal RE242682
Il Saggiatore (1623)

(tr.) The Assayer (1960?)^[1]

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (1632)

(tr.) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1661), translated by Thomas Salusbury (transcription project)

Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze (1638)

(tr.) Two New Sciences (1914), translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio (transcription project)

Collected works

Le Opere di Galileo Galilei (1890-1909), edited in Italian by Antonio Favaro

Footnotes

↑ There does not appear to be an English translation of this work prior to the one included in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 (1960), translated by Stillman Drake (1910 – 1993) and C. D. O’Malley (1907-1970), published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Works about Galileo

"The Trial of Galileo" by Alfred Jean François Mézières in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (February 1877)
Chapter VI "Galilei" in A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1898)
"Galileo I" by Edward Singleton Holden in Popular Science Monthly, 66 (January 1905)
"Galileo II" by Edward Singleton Holden in Popular Science Monthly, 66 (February 1905)
"Galileo III" by Edward Singleton Holden in Popular Science Monthly, 67 (May 1905)
"Galileo IV" by Edward Singleton Holden in Popular Science Monthly, 67 (June 1905)
Life of Galileo Galilei: With Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy (1832), by John Elliot Drinkwater (external scan)
The Private Life of Galileo (1870) by Mary Allan-Olney (external scan)
Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia (1879) by Karl von Gebler (external scan)
Galileo, His Life and Work (1903) by John Joseph Fahie (external scan)
Mitchell, Walter M. "The History of the Discovery of the Solar Spots" in Popular Astronomy, vol. 24 (1916).
Galileo (1918) by Walter William Bryant
The Truth about Galileo and Medieval Science (1926) by McCabe, Joseph.
Inquisition proceedings against Galileo from The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (1989).

Encyclopedias

"Galileo Galilei," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Galileo," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Galileo Galilei," by John Gerard in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Galileo Galilei," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
"Galileo," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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[1] There does not appear to be an English translation of this work prior to the one included in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 (1960), translated by Stillman Drake (1910 – 1993) and C. D. O’Malley (1907-1970), published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

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