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    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.]
    â€”——. 2006. Galileo’s Instruments of Credit . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Brahe, Tycho. 1596. Epistolae astronomicae . Uraniborg.
    â€”——. 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.
    â€”——. 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.
    â€”——, trans. and ed. 1967. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems . [Same as Galilei 1967.]
    â€”——. 1970. Galileo Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
    â€”——. 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.
    â€”——. 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

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