Galileo Galilei, the man so nice, they named him Galileo twice...

Resources to prep for Monday's Free Response Essay

"Why are the trials and tribulations of Galileo often considered both predicative of the future of Western Civilization as well as a perfect encapsulation of the context of his own time?"

Galileo Primary Sources: many are in Italian or Latin; for Italian, use Google Translate

Galileo manuscripts: http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/galileo

Sidera Nuncius: http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0892/

Discovery of a Moon of Jupiter (extract): http://college.cengage.com/history/primary/galileo.htm

I documenti del processo di Galileo Galilei: The Trial of Galileo from the Vatican Library: http://asv.vatican.va/en/stud/download/CAV_21.htm

Encyclopediae:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Cool Resources:

Battle for the Heavens

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/

Starry Messenger / Yale Libraries

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/starrymessenger/

Museo Galileo in Florence

http://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html