The following is a bibliography of selected readings on Galileo's telescope and his astronomical observations. The bibliography is arranged in the order of Galileo's discussions of his developments and discoveries, as he presented them in Sidereus Nuncius and later documents. All references to Sidereus Nuncius are to Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, Albert Van Helden, Translation with Introduction, Comments and Conclusions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
The Astronomy Group gratefully acknowledges Dr. Albert Van Helden's generous support with information from his bibliographic files to assist us in preparing this bibliography.
Brown, Harold I., "Galileo on the telescope and the eye," Journal for the History of Ideas, 46(1985):487-501.
Drake, Stillman, "Galileo Gleanings_XII. An unpublished fragment relating to the telescope and the Medicean Stars," Physis, 6(1962):342-44.
Drake, Stillman, "Galileo's First Telescopic Observations", Journal for the History of Astronomy, 7(1976):153-168.
Erpenstein, O. M., et al, "The Mounting and Drive", Chap. 4 in Thornton Page and Lou Williams Page, Telescopes, How to Make and Use Them, Volume 4 of The Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy, (New York: Macmillan, 1966).
Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, 35-40.
Greco, Vincenzo, Giuseppe Molesini, and Franco Quercioli, "Optical Tests of Galileo's Lenses," Nature, 358.9(July, 1992):101.
Greco, Vincenzo, Giuseppe Molesini, and Franco Quercioli, "Modern Optical Testing on the Lenses of Galileo," in Galileo's "Occhialino" to Optoelectronics, Paolo. Mazzoldi, ed., (Singapore: World Scientific, 1993):110-121.
Learner, Richard, Astronomy Through the Telescope, (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981):8-15.
North, John, "Thomas Harriot and the First Telescopic Observations of Sunspots", in Thomas Harriot- Rennaisance Scientist, John W. Shirley, ed., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974):144-151; 158-161.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):43-50.
Telescopes You Can Build, Edmund Scientific Company Booklet 9065, (Barrington, N.J., 1963).
Van Helden, Albert, "Galileo and the telescope," in Paolo Galluzzi, ed., Novit_ celesti e crisi del sapere, (Florence: BarbSra, 1984):149-158.
Westfall, Richard S., "Science and patronage: Galileo and the telescope," Isis, 76(1985):11-30.
Ashworth, William B., The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo, (Kansas City, Missouri: Linda Hall Library, 1989)
Edgerton, Samuel Y., "Galileo, Florentine `disegno', and the `strange spottednesse' of the moon," Art Journal, 44(1984):225-232.
Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, 39-57.
Parker, Gary D., "Galileo and optical illusion," American Journal of Physics, 54(March, 1986):248-252.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):44-46.
Shea, William R., Galileo and the controversy of the comets, (1618-1623)," Physis, 12.1(1970):5-35.
Frankel, Henery R., "The Importance of Galileo's nontelescopic observations concerning the size of the fixed stars," Isis, 69(1978):77-82.
Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, 35-39.
Learner, Richard, Astronomy Through the Telescope, (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981):114-115.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):46.
D‚barbat, Susanne, and Curtis Wilson, "The Galilean satellites of Jupiter from Galileo to Cassini, R”mer and Bradley,", in Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics. Part A. Tycho Brahe to Newton, Ren‚ Taton and Curtis Wilson, eds., 4 vols. The general History of astronomy, (Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1989):144-157.
Drake, Stillman, "Galileo and satellite prediction," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 10(1979):75-79.
Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius, 64-86.
North, John David, "The Satellites of Jupiter. From Galileo to Bradley," in A. Van der Merwe, ed., Old and new questions in physics, cosmology, philosophy and theoretical biology, (New York, 1983).
Pagnini, P., "Galileo and Simon Mayr," Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 41(1930-31):415-422.
Parker, Gary D., "Galileo and optical illusion," American Journal of Physics, 54(March, 1986):248-252.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):47.
Roche, J. J., "Harriot, Galileo, and Jupiter's Satellites," Archives Interntionales D'Histoire Des Sciences, 32(1982):9-51.
Vanpaemel, G., "Science Disdained: Galileo and the Problem of Longitude," in C. S. Maffeoli, and L. C. Palm, eds., Italian Scientists in the Low Countries in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989):111-129.
Waters, D. W., "Galileo and Longitude: Fundamental Contributions to a Fundamental Problem," Physis, 6(1964):287-302.
Chalmers, Alan, "Galileo's telescopic observations of Venus and Mars," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 36(1985):174-184.
Drake, Stillman, "Galileo, Kepler, and the phases of Venus," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 15(1984):198-208.
Galilei, Galileo, "Considerations on the Copernican Opinion, 1615" in Maurice Finocchiaro, tr. and ed., The Galileo Affair, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989):78.
Galilei, Galileo, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615", in Maurice Finocchiaro, tr. and ed., The Galileo Affair, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989):102-103.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):48.
Van Helden, Albert, tr. and ed. "Conclusion," in Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius, 105-109.
Van Helden, Albert, tr. and ed. "Conclusion," in Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius, 102-103; 111.
Drake, Stillman, "Sunspots, Sizzi, and Scheiner," in Stillman Drake, ed., Galileo Studies: Personality, tradition, and revolution, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970):177-199.
Drake, Stillman, "Galileo Gleanings_III. A Kind Word for Sizzi," Isis, 49(1958):155-165.
Galilei, Galileo, Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, 2nd Ed. Stillman Drake, tr., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967): 345-355.
Hutchison, Keith, "Sunspots, Galileo, and the orbit of the earth," Isis,81(1990):68-74.
Kelter, Irving A., "Paolo Foscarini's Letter to Galileo: The search for proofs of the earth's motion," The Modern Schoolman, 70(November, 1992):31-44.
Koertge, Noretta, "Galileo and the problem of accidents," Journal for the History of Ideas, 38(1977):389-408.
Moss, Jean Dietz, "The Significance of the Sunspot Quarrel," in Jean Dietz Moss, ed., Novelties in the Heavens, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993):97-125.
Ringwood, Stephen D., "A Galilean telescope", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 35(1994):48-49.
Sakurai, Kunitomo, "The solar activity in the time of Galileo," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 11(1980):164-173.
Shea, William R., "Galileo, Scheiner, and the interpretation of sunspots," Isis, 61(1970):458-519.
Shea, William R., "Galileo and the Controversy of the Comets (1618-1623)," Physis, 12.1(1970):5-35.
Shea, William R., Galileo's Intellectual Revolution, (New York: Science History Publications, 1972).
Smith, A. Mark, "Galileo's proof for the earth's motion from the movement of sunspots," Isis, 76(1985):543-551.
Vliegenthart, Adriaan W., "Galileo's sunspots: Their role in 17th-century allegorical thinking," Physis, 7(1965):273-280.
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