Author:Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

See biography, media, quotes. An Italian (Tuscan) mathematician, physicist, astronomer and inventor whose works on astronomy and motion played a prominent role in the scientific revolution.

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[edit] 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)[1]
• Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass (1606)
• The Starry Messenger (1610)[2]
• Discourse on Bodies on or in Water (1612)[3]
• Letters on Sunspots (1613)
• Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (c. 1615) from Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) - Renewal RE242682
• The Assayer (1623)
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)[4][5]
• Two New Sciences (1638)

[edit] Collected works

• Le Opere di Galileo Galilei (1890-1909)

[edit] Works about Galileo

• "Galileo Galilei" in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
• "Galileo" in The New Student's Reference Work.
• Holden, Edward S. "Galileo" in The Popular Science Monthly, vol. 67 (1905).
• McCabe, Joseph. The Truth about Galileo and Medieval Science (1926) - Renewal R125715
• Mézières, Alfred. "The Trial of Galileo" in The Popular Science Monthly, vol. 10 (1877).
• Mitchell, Walter M. "The History of the Discovery of the Solar Spots" in Popular Astronomy, vol. 24 (1916).
• Inquisition proceedings against Galileo from The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (1989).

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