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Natural Philosophy . Trans. and ed. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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    *Pantin, Isabelle, trans. and ed. 1992. Sidereus nuncius/Le messager céleste . [Same as Galilei 1992. Critical edition in Latin and French translation, with extremely useful notes and commentary.]
    Pesce, Mauro. 1992. “Le redazioni originali della Lettera ‘copernicana’ di G. Galilei a B. Castelli.” Filologia e critica 17: 394–417.
    Redondi, Pietro. 1987. Galileo Heretic . Trans. R. Rosenthal. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    *Reeves, Eileen, and Albert Van Helden. Forthcoming. Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [A translation, with notes and commentary, of the writings by Galileo and Christoph Scheiner published in 1612–13, including the full text of Galileo’s History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots .]
    Rosen, Edward. 1947. The Naming of the Telescope . New York: Schuman.
    â€”——. 1958. “Galileo’s Misstatements about Copernicus.” Isis 49: 319–30.
    â€”——. 1975. “Was Copernicus’s Revolutions Approved by the Pope?” Journal of the History of Ideas 36: 531–42.
    Russo, François. 1968. “Lettre de Galilée à Christine de Lorraine, Grande-Duchesse de Toscane (1615).” In Galilée:Aspects de sa vie et de son oeuvre , pp. 324–59. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
    Salusbury, Thomas, trans. and ed. 1661–65. Mathematical Collections and Translations . 2 vols. London: Leybourne.
    Santillana, Giorgio de, ed. 1953. Dialogue on the Great World Systems. Salusbury’s translation revised by G. de Santillana. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    â€”——. 1955. The Crime of Galileo . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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    Sosio, Libero, ed. 1970. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi . [Same as Galilei 1970.]
    Stafford Carlos, Edward, trans. and ed. 1880. The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler’s Dioptrics. [Same as Galilei 1880.]
    *Strauss, Emil, trans. and ed. 1891. Dialog über die beiden hauptsachlichsten Weltsysteme . [Same as Galilei 1891. Contains very useful notes.]
    Tertullian, Quintus S. F. 1972. Adversus Marcionem . Trans. and ed. Ernest Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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    *Wallace, William A. 1984. Galileo and His Sources . Princeton: Princeton University Press. [An excellent historical account of the connection between Galileo’s work and that of his immediate Aristotelian predecessors.]
    Westman, Robert S. 1986. “The Copernicans and the Churches.” In God and Nature , ed. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, pp. 76–113. Berkeley: University of California Press.

CHAPTER 1
    The Sidereal Messenger (1610) 1
    [55] To the Most Serene Cosimo II de’ Medici, Fourth Grand Duke of Tuscany
    [§1.1] There is certainly something very noble and humane in the intention of those who have endeavored to protect from envy the noble achievements of distinguished men, and to rescue their names, worthy of immortality, from oblivion and decay. This desire has given us the images of famous men, sculptured in marble, or fashioned in bronze, as a memorial of them to future ages; to the same feeling we owe the erection of statues, both ordinary and equestrian; hence, as the poet 2 says, has originated expenditure, mounting to the stars, upon columns and