Galileo (Galileo Galilei, 1564--1642)
Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:01First version: Before 13 March 1995
- Recommended, by GG:
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican
- Siderius Nuncius = The Starry Messenger
- Recommended, about GG:
- Marie Boas, The Scientific Renaissance, 1450--1630, ch. XI
- Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo [Fiction, obviously, and not to be relied on as a source, but a good book]
- David Wootton, Galileo: Watch of the Skies
- To read, by GG:
- Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences
- To read, about GG:
- Mario Biagioli, Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
- Giorgio de Santillana, The Crime of Galileo
- Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Retrying Galileo, 1633--1992
- David Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
- Paolo Palmieri, Hermes and the Telescope: In the Crucible of Galileo's Life-World
- Erwin Panofsky, Galileo as a Critic of the Arts
- Eileen Reeves, Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo
- William Shea, "Galileo Then and Now", phil-sci/3558
- Peter Sís, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei