Further Reading
- Berry, Arthur, A Short History of Astronomy, John Murray, 1898, 435 p. (Examines the development of astronomy from early Chinese and Egyptians, through Galileo, and finally to the nineteenth century.)
- Broderick, James, "Galileo: The Man, His Work, His Misfortunes," Harper and Row, 1964, 152 p. (Traces the life of Galileo as a man of "genius" forced to struggle against the outmoded ideas of Aristotle and of Ptolemy, as well as with the implacability of the Inquisition.)
- Brophy, James and Paolucci, Henry (eds.), The Achievement of Galileo, Twayne Publishers, 1962, 256 p. (A collection of essays by Galileo, as well as other writers' articles about Galileo's work and the controversy surrounding it.)
- Campanella, Thomas, Apologiae Pro Galileo: A Defense of Galileo, the Mathematician from Florence, Translated by Richard J. Blackwell, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, 157 p. (Translation of a theological defense of the theories of Galileo from one of his Renaissance contemporaries.)
- Drake, Stillman (trans.), Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957, 302 p. (Provides translations of along with an introduction and notes to Galileo's major writings.)
- Drake, Stillman, Galileo, Hill and Wang, 1980, 100 p. (Brief but comprehensive biography of the life, work, and trial of Galileo.)
- Drake, Stillman, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, The University of Chicago Press, 1978, 536 p. (Looks at Galileo's life from the point of view of his publications, with a particular focus on his lesser known writings.)
- Fantoli, Annibale, Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, Translated by George V. Coyne, Vatican Observatory Publications, 1994, 540 p. (Under the auspices of Pope John Paul II, tries to reexamine in detail the events that resulted in Galileo's conviction by the Inquisition, considering along the way the theories of Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, and Copernicus.)
- Fermi, Laura, and Bernardini, Gilberto, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Basic Books, Inc., 1961, 150 p. (Looks at the personal as well as the scientific side of Galileo's life.)
- Geymonat, Ludovico, Galileo Galilei: A Biography and Inquiry into His Philosophy of Science, Translated by Stillman Drake, McGraw-Hill, 1965, 260 p. (Examines Galileo's life from his childhood to his death, and includes a debate between Stillman Drake and Giorgio de Santillana on the Bellarmine-Galileo confrontation.)
- Golino, Carlo L. (ed.), Galileo Reappraised, University of California Press, 1966, 110 p. (A collection of papers presented at a conference in Los Angeles in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of Galileo's birth.)
- Hummel, Charles E., "Galileo: Science and Theology," in The Galileo Connection: Resolving Conflicts between Science and the Bible, pp. 103-25, Intervarsity Press, 1986. (Examines Galileo's condemnation by the Inquisition and his insistence to the end of his life of his faithfulness to the Church.)
- Koyré, Alexandre, "The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems and the Anti-Aristotelian Polemic," in Galileo Studies, pp. 154-75, Translated by John Mepham, Humanities Press, 1978. (Looks closely at Galileo's views on the theories of Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Copernicus, and his conclusion that the most important differences between these views was the concept of motion.)
- Naylor, Ronald H., "Galileo's Method of Analysis and Synthesis," Isis 81, No. 309 (December 1990): 695-707. (Attempts to shed new light on Galileo's methods of experimentation, and discusses the debate between "pre-" and "post-" 1973 scholarly assessments of Galileo's experiments.)
- Noyes, Alfred, "Galileo," in The Torch-Bearers: Watchers of the Sky, pp. 131-83, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922. (Galileo's loves and life presented as a long poem.)
- Redondi, Pietro, Galileo: Heretic, Translated by Raymond Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1987, 356 p. (Attempts, from a twentieth-century perspective, to "reconstruct" the motives of the principal people involved in the Galileo affair.)
- Reston, James, Jr., Galileo: A Life, Harper Perennial, 1995, 319 p. (Places the life and inventiveness of Galileo within the context of the Renaissance.)
- Santillana, Giorgio de, The Crime of Galileo, Time, Inc., Book Division, 1955, 371 p. (Offers a scientific history of Galileo's life and work, with an emphasis on Renaissance culture.)
- Seeger, Raymond J., Men of Physics: Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Works, Pergamon Press, 1966, 286 p. (Overview of Galileo's life, with a bibliography; followed by a detailed discussion of his scientific work.)
- Segre, Michael, "Light on the Galileo Case?" Isis 88, No. 3 (September 1997): 484-504. (Argues that in two separate speeches, Pope John Paul II contradicts himself in his assessment of Galileo's relationship to the Catholic Church.)
- Van Helden, Albert, "Galileo, Telescopic Astronomy, and the Copernican System," in The General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2: Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics, Part A : Tycho Brahe to Newton, pp. 81-105, Edited by René Taton and Curtis Wilson, Cambridge University Press, 1989. (Discusses in detail Galileo's experiments with the telescope; accompanied by copies of sketches and manuscripts.)
- Wallace, William A., Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought, Edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981, 369 p. (A collection of essays on Galileo by Wallace published over fifteen years and attempting to see Galileo within the context of his era.)
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