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    *———, 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.]
    â€”——. 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.]
    â€”——. 1891. Dialog über die beiden hauptsachlichsten Weltsysteme . Trans. and ed. Emil Strauss. Leipzig: Teubner.
    â€”——. 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.
    â€”——. 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.]
    â€”——. 1964. Opere. 5 vols. Ed. Pietro Pagnini. Florence: Salani.
    â€”——. 1967. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems . 2nd revised edn. Trans. and ed. Stillman

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