Author:Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei
(1564–1642)
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Tuscan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and inventor whose works on astronomy and motion played a prominent role in the scientific revolution

Galileo Galilei

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) (transcription project)
  • Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass (1606)
  • Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
  • Discorso intorno alle cose che stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono (1612)
  • (tr.) The Assayer (1960?)[1]
  • Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (1632)
  • Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze (1638)

Collected works

  • Le Opere di Galileo Galilei (1890-1909), edited in Italian by Antonio Favaro

Footnotes

  1. ↑ There does not appear to be an English translation of this work prior to the one included in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 (1960), translated by Stillman Drake (1910 – 1993) and C. D. O’Malley (1907-1970), published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Works about Galileo

Encyclopedias

Poetry

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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