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Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by C. Audran the elder after F. Villamena, 1655-56.

Galileo Galilei. Line engraving.

Galileo Galilei: interior of Villa del Gallo, Count Galletti's museum of Galileo, showing crests on the wall of a vaulted room and a painting of Galileo. Process print.

Galileo Galilei. Reproduction of etching after [B.].

Galileo Galilei receiving a visit from John Milton at the Torre del Gallo. Photograph after a painting by A. Gatti.

Galileo Galilei: interior of Villa del Gallo, Count Galletti's museum of Galileo, with two portraits of Galileo on the wall of a vaulted room. Process print.

Galileo Galilei at his trial by the Inquisition in Rome in 1633. Photograph of a painting.

Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by Martinet after J. Sustermans, 1635.

Galileo Galilei. Mezzotint, 17--.

Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by F. Spagnoli after G. Asioli after A. Costoli.

Galileo Galilei and the Roman curia / From authentic sources. By Karl von Gebler ; translated, with the sanction of the author, by Mrs. George Sturge.

Galileo's visions : piercing the spheres of the heavens by eye and mind / Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge / Nick Wilding.

Il sogno di Galileo : oggetti e immagini della ragione / Enrico Bellone.

Sidereus, nuncius magna longeqve admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens vnicuique praesertim vero philosophis, atque astronomis / quae a Galileo Galileo ... perspicilli nuper a sereperti beneficio sunt obseruata in lvnae facie, fixis innvmeris, lacteo circvlo stellis nebvlosis, apprime vero in qvatvor planetis circa Iovis stellam disparibus interuallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumuolutis; quos, nemini in hanc vsque diem cognitos, nouissime auctor deprehendit primus; atque medicea sidera nvncvpandos decrevit.

Astronomy: five diagrams of the surface of the moon, during its phases. Aquatint after Galileo Galilei.

Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.

Sidereus nuncius : magna longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendáque proponens unicuique, præsertim verò philosophis, atque astronomis / quæ à Galileo Galileo ... ; perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt observata in lunæ facie, fixis innumeris, lacteo circulo, stellis nebulosis ; apprimè verò in quatuor planetis circa Jovis stellam disparibus intervallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumvolutis ; quos, nemini in hanc usque diem cognitos, novissimè auctor deprehendit primus, atque Medicea sidera nuncupandos decrevit.

Galileo against the philosophers in his Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti (1605) and Considerations of Alimberto Mauri (1606) : in English translations / with introductions and notes by Stillman Drake.

I documenti del processo di Galileo Galilei / a cura di Sergio M. Pagano ; collaborazione di Antonio G. Luciani.

On motion, and On mechanics : comprising De motu (ca. 1590) / translated with introduction and notes by I.E. Drabkin, and Le meccaniche (ca. 1600) translated with introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

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Galileo Galilei and the Roman curia / From authentic sources. By Karl von Gebler ; translated, with the sanction of the author, by Mrs. George Sturge.

Galileo against the philosophers in his Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti (1605) and Considerations of Alimberto Mauri (1606) : in English translations / with introductions and notes by Stillman Drake.

I documenti del processo di Galileo Galilei / a cura di Sergio M. Pagano ; collaborazione di Antonio G. Luciani.

On motion, and On mechanics : comprising De motu (ca. 1590) / translated with introduction and notes by I.E. Drabkin, and Le meccaniche (ca. 1600) translated with introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.