Talk:The Works of Galileo Galilei--National Edition
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| Information about this edition | |
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| Edition: | Le Opere di Galileo Galilei—Edizione Nazionale (1890-1909) |
| Source: | Scanned images retrieved from Gallica |
| Contributor(s): | David Wilson |
| Level of progress: | Text sources being collected |
| Notes: | No complete English translation available. See notes section below. |
Notes[edit]
- Since it was published, Favaro's National Edition of Galileo's works has been an indispensable reference work for Galilean scholars.
- No complete translation of the National Edition into English has ever been undertaken, but it has been the source for most English translations of Galileo's works that have been made since its publication.
- The French National Library has scanned the entire work, and made electronic copies (pdf or tiff) availabe for downloading from its online site, Gallica.
- Some out-of-copyright English translations of some of Galileo's works have been scanned and made available on-line. These include Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio's 1914 translation of Two New Sciences available at The Online Library of Liberty, and Thomas Salusbury's 1661 translation of several of Galileo's works, part of which is available on-line from the Linda Hall Library's on-line History of Science collection.
- Where English translations of Galileo's works are available for incoporation into Wikisource, I believe these should be made available first as ordinary Wikisource editions in their own right, and then used as a foundation for the translation and annotation of the corresponding parts of the National Edition.
- I have made a start on putting together a Wikisource edition of Crew and De Salvio's translation of Two New Sciences. The translators' preface can be viewed in my sandbox.
David Wilson (talk) 10:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Other Resources[edit]
The Archimedes Project has made texts of Thomas Salusbury's and others' translations of some of Galileo's works available on-line. The ECHO charter and policy under which these have been made available suggests that it might be possible to copy them to Wikisource under a free Documentation licence. This will have to be confirmed by the owners of whatever copyright subsists in the material, however, before this can be done.