Galileo (Galileo Galilei, 1564--1642)

03 Oct 1994 12:01

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Recommended:
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican
• Siderius Nuncius = The Starry Messenger

To read:
• Mario Biagioli, Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy [Blurb]
• Giorgio de Santillana, The Crime of Galileo
• Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Retrying Galileo, 1633--1992 [Blurb]
• David Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History
• GG
  • Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences
• 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