Reading List
Learn more about Galileo and his times with books available through the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Begin your exploration of the people, places, events and ideas in the Galileo's World exhibition with the following recommended books.
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Dava Sobel. Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (New York: Walker & Company, 2011) |
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Mark A. Peterson. Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) |
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Ronald L. Numbers. Galileo Goes to Jail: and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009) |
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Scott Montgomery. The Moon and the Western Imagination (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999) |
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John L. Heilbron. Galileo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) |
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Christopher M. Graney. Setting Aside All Authority (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) |
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Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 (Berkley: University of California Press, 2005) |
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Benjamin Elman. On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005) |
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Samuel Y. Edgerton. Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009) |
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Stillman Drake. Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) |
