The Essential GalileoGalileo GalileiLabel: Hackett Publishing Co IncDescription: Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words whether on the telescope the Dialogue the trial or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank Professor of the History of Science University of Wisconsin–Madison
