The Essential Galileo (6 page)

Zúñiga
, Diego de (c. 1536–98). Augustinian friar from Salamanca (Spain) and author of a commentary on the book of Job that was published in the sixteenth century, favored the earth's motion, and was banned by the Index's Decree of 1616.

Annotated Bibliography and Cited Works

This bibliography lists only works cited in the notes or deserving annotation here. Annotated entries are meant to provide an elementary guide for further reading and are marked with an asterisk.

Battistini, Andrea, ed. 1993.
Sidereus nuncius.
[Same as Galilei 1993.]

Beltrán Marí, Antonio. 2006.
Talento y poder: Historia de las relaciones entre Galileo y la Iglesia católica.
Pamplona: Laetoli.

*Biagioli, Mario. 1993.
Galileo Courtier
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Focuses on questions of social institutions, psychological motivation, and political power, especially patronage.]

———. 2006.
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Brahe, Tycho. 1596.
Epistolae astronomicae
. Uraniborg.

———. 1602.
Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata
. Uraniborg. Camerota, Michele. 2004.
Galileo Galilei e la cultura scientifica nell'età della Controriforma.
Rome: Salerno Editrice.

*Clavelin, Maurice. 1974.
The Natural Philosophy of Galileo
. Trans. A. J. Pomerans. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [The most comprehensive available account of Galileo's physics, astronomy, and methodology, focusing on published sources.]

Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1976.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
. Trans. A. M. Duncan. Newton Abbot: Davis & Charles.

———. 1992.
On the Revolutions
. Trans. and ed. Edward Rosen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Crew, Henry, and Alfonso De Salvio, trans. and eds. 1914.
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
. New York: Macmillan. [Same as Galilei 1914.]

Drake, Stillman. 1957.
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company.

———, trans. and ed. 1967.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
. [Same as Galilei 1967.]

———. 1970.
Galileo Studies.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

———. 1973. “Galileo Gleanings XXII: Velocity and Eudoxian Proportion Theory.”
Physis
15: 49–64.

*———, trans. and ed. 1974.
Two New Sciences
. [Same as Galilei 1974. An excellent translation of the entire text, including useful commentary and notes.]

*———. 1978.
Galileo at Work
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [The most reliable, detailed, and up-to-date scientific biography in English.]

*———. 1981.
Cause, Experiment, and Science.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [A discussion of the topics mentioned in the title, written in dialogue form; interspersed in the discussion is a translation of the full text of Galileo's
Discourse on Bodies in Water
.]

*———. 1983.
Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [A discussion of the topics mentioned in the title, written in dialogue form; interspersed in the discussion is a translation of the full text of Galileo's
Sidereal Messenger
.]

*Drake, Stillman, and C. D. O'Malley, trans. and eds. 1960.
The Controversy on the Comets of 1618
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [A translation of all the works relating to this controversy, including the full text of Galileo's
The Assayer
.]

Einstein, Albert. 1954.
Ideas and Opinions
. Trans. Sonja Bargmann. New York: Crown Publishers.

*Fantoli, Annibale. 2003.
Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church
. 3rd edn. Trans. G. V. Coyne. Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications. [The most accurate, balanced, and comprehensive historical account of Galileo's trial in English.]

Favaro, Antonio, ed. 1890–1909.
Le Opere di Galileo Galilei.
[Same as Galilei 1890–1909.]

Finocchiaro, Maurice A. 1972. “Vires Acquirit Eundo: The Passage Where Galileo Renounces Space-Acceleration and Causal Investigation.”
Physis
14: 125–45.

———. 1973. “Galileo's Space-Proportionality Argument: A Role for Logic in Historiography.”
Physis
15: 65–72.

*———. 1980.
Galileo and the Art of Reasoning
. Boston: Reidel. [A detailed analysis of the scientific, methodological, logical, and rhetorical aspects of Galileo's
Dialogue
.]

*———, trans. and ed. 1989.
The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History.
Berkeley: University of California Press. [A collection of the trial documents from 1613 to 1633, arranged, introduced, and annotated in such a way as to make them understandable to non-experts and useful to experts. It includes, in particular, the full text of the following essays by Galileo: “Letter to Castelli” (1613); “Considerations on the Copernican Opinion” (1615);
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
(1615); “Discourse on the Tides” (1616); and “Reply to Ingoli” (1624).]

*———, trans. and ed. 1997.
Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide.
Berkeley: University of California Press. [An abridged translation and guide to the critical reading of Galileo's
Dialogue
, for specialists and nonspecialists alike.]

*———. 2005.
Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992.
Berkeley: University of California Press. [An introductory but comprehensive survey of the sources, facts, and issues of the controversy
about
the 1633 condemnation of Galileo.]

Flora, Ferdinando, ed. 1953.
Opere
. [Same as Galilei 1953.]

*Frova, Andrea, and Mariapiera Marenzana. 2006.
Thus Spoke Galileo
. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [A good introduction to Galileo, primarily for practicing scientists and science students, and useful for all interested readers; about evenly divided between Galilean texts and interpretive commentary.]

*Galilei, Galileo. 1636.
Nov-antiqua sanctissimorum Patrum, & probatorum theologorum doctrina de Sacrae Scripturae testimoniis, in conclusionibus mere naturalibus, quae sensata experientia et necessariis demonstrationibus evinci possunt …
. Ed. Matthias Bernegger. Trans. Elia Diodati. Strasbourg. [First edition of the Italian text of the
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
, together with a Latin translation.]

———. 1880.
The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's
Dioptrics. Trans. and ed. Edward Stafford Carlos. London: Rivingtons. Rpt., London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1960.

*———. 1890–1909.
Opere.
20 vols. National Edition by A. Favaro. Florence: Barbèra. Reprinted in 1929–39 and 1968. [The standard critical edition of Galileo's collected works and correspondence, including directly related works and correspondence by others.]

———. 1891.
Dialog über die beiden hauptsachlichsten Weltsysteme
. Trans. and ed. Emil Strauss. Leipzig: Teubner.

———. 1914.
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences.
Trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio. New York: Macmillan. Rpt.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1939, 1946, 1950 and New York: Dover, 1951.

———. 1953.
Opere
. Ed. Ferdinando Flora. Milan: Riccardo Ricciardi.

*———. 1954. “Two Kinds of Properties.” Trans. Arthur Danto. In
Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
, ed. Columbia University, 1: 719–24
.
2nd edn. New York: Columbia University Press. [A good and useful translation of the passage on primary and secondary qualities in
The Assayer
.]

*———. 1958.
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze.
Ed. Adriano Carugo e Ludovico Geymonat. Turin: Boringhieri. [The most extensively annotated edition of
Two New Sciences;
also contains Italian translations of original Latin passages.]

*———. 1960.
Discourse on Bodies in Water
. Trans. Thomas Salusbury. With Introduction and Notes by Stillman Drake. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. [A translation of the complete text, first published in 1665, but left unrevised; thus the archaic English is hard to follow.]

———. 1964.
Opere.
5 vols. Ed. Pietro Pagnini. Florence: Salani.

———. 1967.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
. 2nd revised edn. Trans. and ed. Stillman Drake. Berkeley: University of California Press.

———. 1970.
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi
. Ed. Libero Sosio. Turin: Einaudi.

———. 1974.
Two New Sciences.
Trans. and ed. Stillman Drake. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

———. 1989.
Sidereus nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger.
Trans. and ed. Albert Van Helden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. 1992.
Sidereus nuncius/Le messager céleste
. Trans. and ed. Isabelle Pantin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

———. 1993.
Sidereus nuncius.
Ed. Andrea Battistini. Trans. Maria Timpanaro Cardini. Venice: Marsilio.

*———. 1998.
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi
. 2 vols. Critical edition with commentary by Ottavio Besomi and Mario Helbing. Padua: Antenore. [Extremely valuable for specialists.]

*———. 2001.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
. Trans. Stillman Drake. Ed. John L. Heilbron. New York: Modern Library. [A translation of the entire text, reprinted in a more userfriendly volume from the second (1967) edition published by the University of California Press.]

*———. 2002.
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
. Edited with commentary by Stephen Hawking. Philadelphia: Running Press. [A translation of the full text, reprinted without alterations from the Crew-De Salvio translation, with two introductory essays by the great physicist Hawking, as part of the series “On the Shoulders of Giants” that also includes works by Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein.]

Garin, Eugenio. 1971. “A proposito del Copernico.”
Rivista critica di storia della filosofia
26: 83–87.

———. 1975. “Alle origini della polemica anticopernicana.” In
Colloquia Copernicana
, vol. 2 (Studia Copernicana, vol. 6), pp. 31–42. Wroclaw: Ossolineum.

Gingerich, Owen. 1982. “The Galileo Affair.”
Scientific American
, August, pp. 132–43.

Granada, Miguel A. 1997. “Giovanni Maria Tolosani e la prima reazione romana di fronte al ‘De revolutionibus.'” In
La diffusione del copernicanesimo in Italia, 1543–1610
, ed. Massimo Bucciantini and Maurizio Torrini, pp. 11–35. Florence: Olschki.

Hawking, Stephen W. 1988.
A Brief History of Time
. New York: Bantam Books.

———. 1992. “Galileo Galilei (1564–1642): His Life and Work.” In Galilei 2002, pp. xi–xvii.

Julian, John, ed. 1892.
A Dictionary of Hymnology
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Koyré, Alexandre. 1943. “Traduttore-Traditore: A Propos de Copernic et Galilée.”
Isis
34: 209–10.

*———. 1978.
Galileo Studies
. Trans. J. Mepham. Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1978. [A widely discussed and influential work by a leading Galilean scholar, first published in French in 1939.]

Langford, Jerome J. 1966.
Galileo, Science and the Church
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Mayaud, Pierre-Noël. 1997.
La condamnation des livres coperniciens et sa révocation à la lumière de documents inédits des Congrégations de l'Index et de l'Inquisition
. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana.

McMullin, Ernan, ed. 2005a.
The Church and Galileo.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

———. 2005b. “Galileo's Theological Venture.” In McMullin 2005a, pp. 88–116.

*Motta, Franco, ed. 2000.
Lettera a Cristina di Lorena: Sull'uso della Bibbia nelle argomentazioni scientifiche.
Genoa: Marietti. [Reprint of the Italian text of the original edition (Galilei 1636), with the addition of useful notes by the editor and a lengthy introduction by Mauro Pesce.]

Mourant, John A., ed. 1964.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Saint Augustine: Selected Readings and Commentary
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Newton, Isaac. 1999.
The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
. Trans. and ed. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press.

*Pagnini, Pietro, ed. 1964.
Opere di Galileo Galilei.
[Same as Galilei 1964. Contains extremely useful notes and commentary.]

*Pantin, Isabelle, trans. and ed. 1992.
Sidereus nuncius/Le messager céleste
. [Same as Galilei 1992. Critical edition in Latin and French translation, with extremely useful notes and commentary.]

Pesce, Mauro. 1992. “Le redazioni originali della Lettera ‘copernicana' di G. Galilei a B. Castelli.”
Filologia e critica
17: 394–417.

Redondi, Pietro. 1987.
Galileo Heretic
. Trans. R. Rosenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

*Reeves, Eileen, and Albert Van Helden. Forthcoming.
Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [A translation, with notes and commentary, of the writings by Galileo and Christoph Scheiner published in 1612–13, including the full text of Galileo's
History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots
.]

Rosen, Edward. 1947.
The Naming of the Telescope
. New York: Schuman.

———. 1958. “Galileo's Misstatements about Copernicus.”
Isis
49: 319–30.

———. 1975. “Was Copernicus's
Revolutions
Approved by the Pope?”
Journal of the History of Ideas
36: 531–42.

Russo, François. 1968. “Lettre de Galilée à Christine de Lorraine, Grande-Duchesse de Toscane (1615).” In
Galilée:Aspects de sa vie et de son oeuvre
, pp. 324–59. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.