Links
The Galileo Project
es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
Rice University's Galileo Project Web site offers hundreds of
pages of detailed information on Galileo, including a timeline of
his life and era, a detailed diagram of his family villa, and an
extensive bibliography.
Institute and Museum of the History of Science (IMSS)
www.imss.fi.it/museo/
The Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence,
Italy features a permanent exhibition of Galileo artifacts. Images
of these items, which include telescopes and, surprisingly, the
withered middle finger of Galileo's right hand, can be viewed at
the Institute's Web site.
Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion
galileo.imss.firenze.it/ms72/index.html
The IMMS Web site also offers hi-resolution scans of more than
300 handwritten pages of Galileo's notes and diagrams on
motion.
Galileo and Einstein
galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu
This companion Web site to a University of Virginia course on
Galileo and Einstein provides a wide range of information related
to Galileo and his place in scientific history. You will find a
complete online version of Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences, an overview with
diagrams of Galileo's relationship to Copernicus, and the full
text of more than 20 related lectures.
Books
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and
Love
by Dava Sobel. New York: Walker, 1999.
Based on 124 letters from Galileo's illegitimate daughter, Maria
Celeste, to her father from inside a Tuscan convent, Sobel paints
an intimate picture of Galileo's personal and professional life
and the times during which he lived. (See our adaptation,
His Place in Science.)
The Crime of Galileo
by Giorgio de Santillana. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Those interested in reading more about the difficult relationship
between Galileo and the Vatican should consult this volume, still
considered to be the definitive resource on the subject. Giorgio
de Santillana's meticulous prose quotes liberally from official
Vatican documents and puts the entire affair in perspective.
The Sleepwalkers
by Arthur Koestler. New York: Arkana,
1990.
Koestler presents the history of cosmology from the Babylonians to
Newton and shows how Galileo sat at the center of the scientific
revolution that spawned our contemporary worldview.
Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds
to the Heavens
by Richard Panek. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Journalist Richard Panek brings 400 years of the telescope into
focus in this slim, highly readable volume. What is the purpose of
the telescope? Why did its invention have such a profound effect
on science and life as we know it? Find out here.
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