Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633 Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, of Florence, aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves, and ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Robert Bellarmine: Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615 Galileo's letter of 1614 to the Grand Duchess Christina Duchess of Tuscany was not widely known, and was ignored by Church authorities. When a year later the Carmelite provincial Paolo Foscarini supported Galileo publicly by attempting to prove that the new theory was not opposed to ...

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Ms. Gal. 72 Folios 33 to 196 Electronic Representation of the Manuscript Copyright notice Version 2.2 Mon May 10 18:17:56 1999 How to Use the Electronic Representation of the Manuscript List of Folio Pages Indices Propositions of the Discorsi in Ms.

A biographical account of Galileo Galilei, complete with a directory of other electronic and paper resources.

Galileo and Einstein Lecture Notes by Michael Fowler Summary of the Course The course explores two revolutions in our perception of the universe. The first, in which Galileo played the leading role, was the realization that what we see in the heavens -- the moon, the planets, the sun and stars -- are physical objects. For example, the moon has a rocky surface, not unlike some parts of earth, and ...

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Quizzes about Galileo Galilei, his life, thermometer, telescope, discoveries and The Starry Messenger.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 To the Most Serene Grand Duchess Mother: Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in ...

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A collection of primary documents, essays, ancient texts, maps, photos, paintings and other materials relating to the trial in 1633 of Galileo Galilei.

Galileo's defence of the Copernican system ...

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The Irrepressible Galileo Galilei - The life and work of Galileo, including considerations to his nativity.