This list provides full bibliographical information for all the works that are cited in abbreviated form in the Notes. The list also includes a few works that are generally valuable, although they are not specifically cited in the Notes. Some of the works in both of these categories are recommended for further reading, and such a recommendation is indicated by means of an asterisk (*).
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*Beretta, Francesco (1999). “Le Procès de Galilée et les Archives du Saint-Office.” Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 83:441–90.
Berggren, Lars, and Lennart Sjöstedt (1996). L’ombra dei grandi. Rome: Artemide Edizioni.
*Biagioli, Mario (1993). Galileo Courtier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Biagioli, Mario (2006). Galileo’s Instruments of Credit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Blackwell, Richard J. (1991). Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
*Blackwell, Richard J. (2006). Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
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Brewster, David (1841). The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler. London: John Murray.
*Brooke, John H. (1991). Science and Religion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
*Brooke, John, and Geoffrey Cantor (1998). Reconstructing Nature. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
Brown, Harold I. (1979). Perception, Theory and Commitment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Bucciantini, Massimo (1995). Contro Galileo. Florence: Olschki.
*Bucciantini, Massimo (2003). Galileo e Keplero. Turin: Einaudi.
Bucciantini, Massimo, M. Camerota, and F. Giudice, Eds. (2011). Il caso Galileo. Florence: Olschki.
*Bucciantini, Masimo, M. Camerota, and F. Giudice (2015). Galileo’s Telescope, trans. Catherine Bolton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
*Butterfield, Herbert (1949). The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800. London: Bell.
*Camerota, Michele (2004). Galileo Galilei e la cultura scientifica nell’età della Controriforma. Rome: Salerno Editrice.
Camerota, Michele, Franco Giudice, and Salvatore Ricciardo (2018). “The Reappearance of Galileo’s Original Letter to Benedetto Castelli.”
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Campanella, Tommaso (1622). Apologia pro Galileo. Frankfurt.
Campanella, Tommaso (1994). A Defense of Galileo, trans. and ed. R. J. Blackwell. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Carvalho Neto, Paulo de (1971). The Concept of Folklore, trans. J. M. P. Wilson. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press.
*Clavelin, Maurice (1974). The Natural Philosophy of Galileo, trans. A. J. Pomerans. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.
*Cohen, I. Bernard (1960). The Birth of a New Physics. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1992). On the Revolutions, trans. and ed. E. Rosen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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*DiCanzio, Albert (1996). Galileo: His Science and His Significance for the Future of Man. Portsmouth, NH: ADASI.
Drake, Stillman (1957). Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
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Drake, Stillman (1983). Telescopes, Tides & Tactics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Drake, Stillman (1986). “Reexamining Galileo’s Dialogue.” In Reinterpreting Galileo, ed. William A. Wallace, pp. 155–75. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
Draper, John W. (1874). History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. New York: Appleton.
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*Fantoli, Annibale (2003). Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, 3rd edn., trans. G. V. Coyne. Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications.
*Fantoli, Annibale (2012). The Case of Galileo, trans. G. V. Coyne. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame.
*Feldhay, Rivka (1995). Galileo and the Church. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Feyerabend, Paul K. (1975). Against Method. London: NLB.
*Feyerabend, Paul K. (1985). “Galileo and the Tyranny of Truth.” In The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science, ed. George V. Coyne, M. Heller, and J. Zycínski, pp. 155–66. Vatican City: Specola Vaticana.
Feyerabend, Paul K. (1988). Against Method, rev. edn. London: Verso.
*Feyerabend, Paul K. (1993). Against Method, 3rd edn. London: Verso.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (1980). Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 61. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (1985). “Wisan on Galileo and the Art of Reasoning.” Annals of Science 42:613–16.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A., trans. and Ed. (1989). The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A., trans. and Ed. (1997). Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2002a). “Galileo as a ‘Bad Theologian’: A Formative Myth about Galileo’s Trial.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33:753–91.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2002b). “Philosophy versus Religion and Science versus Religion: The Trials of Bruno and Galileo.” In Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance, ed. Hilary Gatti, pp. 51–96. Aldershot: Ashgate.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2005). Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Finocchiaro, Maurice A., trans. and Ed. (2008). The Essential Galileo. Indianapolis: Hackett.
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*Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2010). Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 281. Dordrecht: Springer.
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Finocchiaro, Maurice. A. (2013). “Galileo under Fire and under Patronage.” In Ideas under Fire, ed. Jonathan Lavery, Louis Groarke, and William Sweet, pp. 123–43. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
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*Finocchiaro, Maurice A., trans. and Ed. (2014b). The Trial of Galileo: Essential Documents. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2016). “Galileo’s First Confrontation with the Inquisition (1616): Four Orders and Three Issues.” Galilaeana 13:29–60.
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