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