CONTENTS

Introduction

Note on the Text and Translation

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Galileo

A Sidereal Message

Letters on the Sunspots

First Letter

From the Third Letter

Science and Religion

Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Letter from Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini

Observations on the Copernican Theory

From The Assayer

Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

First Day

From the Second Day

From the Third Day

Fourth Day

The Trial

Two New Sciences

From the First Day

From the Third Day

Explanatory Notes

Index