Readings

READINGS
Topic: Galileo Motion

Buy at Amazon Galileo. "Introductions by J. L. Heilbron." In Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2001. ISBN: 9780375757662.

Excerpts from Day 1 and Day 2

Buy at Amazon Galileo. Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967, pp. 24-25, 126-167, 175-186, 230-23, and day 4 dialogue and figures.

Settle, Thomas B. "An Experiment in the History of Science;: With a Simple but Ingenious Device Galileo Could Obtain Relatively Precise Time Measurements." Science 133, no. 3445 (1961): 19-23.

Buy at Amazon Galileo. On Motion and On Mechanics, Comprising De Motu (ca. 1590) and Le Meccaniche (ca. 1600) (Publications in Medieval Science). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960, chapters 1-23. ISBN: 9780299020309.

———. Two New Sciences. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974, Sections 140-141.

Galileo. Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems.
[A condensed, shortened version of Drake's translation of Galileo's dialogue.]

English translation, Galileo's Two New Sciences Complete
[Galileo's complete 1638 book on motion, in a web form, English translation of 1914.]

Buy at Amazon Aris, Rutherford, et al. Springs of Scientific Creativity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1983, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780816668304.

Buy at Amazon McMullin, Ernan. Galileo: Man of Science. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 1967, chapter 15.

Settle, Thomas. "Galileo's Experimental Research." Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 1996.

Topic: Sunspots

Buy at Amazon Blackwell, Richard J. Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780268010270.

Buy at Amazon ———. Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, chapter 4. ISBN: 9780268022105.

Buy at Amazon Galilei, Galileo. "Letters on Sunspots." In Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Harpswell, ME: Anchor, 1957. ISBN: 9780385092395.

Topic: Powers of Ten

Buy at Amazon Boeke, Kees. Cosmic view: The universe in 40 jumps. New York, NY: J. Day, 1957.

Cavicchi, Elizabeth. "Witness Account of Solar Microscope Projections: Collective Acts Integrating Across Personal Memory and History." British Journal for the History of Science 41 (2008): 369-383.

Buy at Amazon Morrison, Philip, and Phylis Morrison. The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know. New York, NY: Random House, 1987. ISBN: 9780394556635.

conspiersacy. ""The Ring of Truth: Atoms" featuring Julia Child." February 02, 2007. YouTube. Accessed May 2, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw-cZhTISBk

chickan. ""The Ring of Truth: Atoms" featuring Julia Child part 2." December 31, 2008. YouTube. Accessed May 2, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-mVHoosdI

Buy at Amazon Morrison Philip, Morrison Phylis, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe. New York, NY: Scientific American Books, 1982. ISBN: 9780716714095.

Topic: Galileo Instruments

Buy at Amazon McMullin, Ernan. Galileo: Man of Science. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 1967, chapter 13.

Galileo's compass. Drake's translated text.
[Florence museum website presentation of Galileo's compass, texts, and its uses.]

Galileo. Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1978. ISBN: 9780874743838.

Buy at Amazon Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. 34-87. ISBN: 9780226279039.

Buy at Amazon Kepler, Johannes. Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger. First Complete Translation, With an Introduction and Notes, by Edward Rosen. The Sources of Science, No. 5. New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1965, pp. 9-25.

Buy at Amazon Biagioli, Mario. Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780226045610.

Cavicchi, Elizabeth. "Painting the Moon." Sky & Telescope (1991): 313-315.

Topic: Galileo Biography

Buy at Amazon Sobel, Dava. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Scienc: A Historial Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. New York, NY: Penguin, 2000, chapters I-VIII and XXI - XXIV. ISBN: 9780140280555.

Buy at Amazon McMullin, Ernan. Galileo: Man of Science. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., 1967, chapter 2.

Topic: Galileo Sound
Buy at Amazon Galileo. Excerpts from The Assayer In Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Harpswell, ME: Anchor Publishing, 1957. ISBN: 9780385092395.

Buy at Amazon Galilei, Vincenzo. Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (Music Theory Translation Series). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300090451.

Topic: Early Telescope and Spectacles

Pelling, Nick. "Who Invented the Telescope?" History Today 58, no. 10 (2008): 26-31.

Buy at Amazon Willach, Rolf. The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society). Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2008, chapters 1 - 11. ISBN: 9781606189856.

Helden, Albert Van. "The Invention of the Telescope." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 67, no. 4 (1977): 1-67.

Topic: Brecht's Galileo

Buy at Amazon Brecht, Bertolt. "Forward, Introduction, Scenes 1-6." In Life of Galileo. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2008. ISBN: 9780143105381.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Introduction." In Galileo. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802130594.

Topic: Galileo Affair - Politics

Buy at Amazon Blackwell, Richard J. "The Legal Case at Galileo's Trial: Impasse and Perfidy." In Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780268022105.

Buy at Amazon Biagioli, Mario. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780226045603.

Buy at Amazon Finocchiaro, Maurice A. The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (California Studies in the History of Science). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989, chapter IX. ISBN: 9780520066625.

Buy at Amazon ———. Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007, chapters 3, 9, and 17. ISBN: 9780520253872.

Topic: Educational Readings

Cavicchi, Elizabeth. "Perspectives on Science." Perspectives on Science 14, no. 1 (2006): 66-96.

———. "Experimenting with Magnetism: Ways of Learning of Joann and Faraday." Am J Phys 65, no. 9 (1997): 867-882.

———. "Charles Grafton Page's Experiment with a Spiral Conductor." Technology and Culture 49, no. 4 (2008): 1097-3729.

———. "Reflections on the Teaching of Gerbert of Aurillac." In Orbe Novus. Edited by C. Sigismondi. Rome, Italy: Universitalia, 2010, pp. 7-21. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 4.3MB)

———. "Activity inspired by Medieval Observers with Tubes." In Orbe Novus. Edited by C. Sigismondi. Rome, Italy: Universitalia, 2010, pp. 22-39. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 4.3MB)