http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#galileo <ul>Recommended: <li><cite>Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican</cite> <li><citE>Siderius Nuncius</cite> = <cite>The Starry Messenger</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Mario Biagioli, <cite>Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/167271.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Giorgio de Santillana, <citE>The Crime of Galileo</cite> <li>Maurice A. Finocchiaro, <cite>Retrying Galileo, 1633--1992</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10252.html">Blurb</a>] <li>David Freedberg, <cite>The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History</cite> <li>GG <ul> <li><cite>Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences</cite> </ul> <li>Erwin Panofsky, <cite>Galileo as a Critic of the Arts</cite> <li>Eileen Reeves, <cite>Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo</cite> <li>William Shea, "Galileo Then and Now", <a href="http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003558/">phil-sci/3558</a> <li>Peter S&iacute;s, <cite>Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei</cite> </ul>