Primary Sources
Beck, Roger B. "A Revolutionary Model of the Universe." 1983. World History: Patterns of Interaction. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. 625. Print.
We used a quote Galileo said himself in our website. We also used this page as a starting point in our research.
Galilei, Galileo, and Helden Albert. Van. Sidereus Nuncius, Or, The Sidereal Messenger. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989. Print.
We used this source to gather quotes and to see how Galileo wrote and interpreted his discoveries.
Galilei, Galileo, and Stillman Drake. Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican. Berkeley: University of California, 1967. Print.
We used this source to find out why Galileo was convicted of heresy.
Galilei, Galileo. Galileo's Sketches of the Moon. Digital image. The Galileo Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014
We used images of these sketches in our website.
Galilei, Galileo. Galileo's 1610 Journal shows sketches of the objects around Jupiter which he later recognized to be moons. Digital image. Solar System Exploration: Science & Technology: Science Features: Our Solar System: Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun. NASA, n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2013.
We used this sketch that Galileo drew in our website.
Galilei, Maria Celeste, and Dava Sobel. Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo (1623 - 1633). New York [u.a.: Penguin, 2003. Print.
We used these letters that Galileo’s daughter wrote to him to learn about him and his personality.
Secondary Sources
Dejoie, Joyce, and Elizabeth Truelove. "Galileo Galilei." Galileo Galilei. N.p., n.d. Web. 06
Nov. 2013.
<http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html>.
The site is supervised and edited by NASA so we used it to verify the information we got from other sites.
Digges, Thomas. Diagram of the Universe. Digital image. The Galileo Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014.
We used this picture in our website
Dunbar, Brian. "Telescope History." NASA. NASA, 23 Dec. 2003. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/telescope_feature_912.html>.
We used this source to gather information about science before and after Galileo.
Galilean Family Portrait. Digital image. Solar System Exploration. NASA, 5 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=2098>.
We used this image in our website.
"Galileo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica
Inc., 2013. Web. 06 Nov. 2013
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/224058/Galileo>.
This source was used to gather basic information to write about in our website.
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens. Dir. Brian McDairmant. Perf. Simon Callow, Laura Nardi, John Fraser, and Leiv Schreiber. PBS Video. N.p., 28 Oct. 2002. Web. 4 Dec. 2013. <http://video.pbs.org/video/2036276385/>
This movie’s information, by experts on the topic, was used to cross check the information we gathered from other sites.
"GALILEO'S TELESCOPE." World History Galileo's Telescope. Discovery Education. N.d. YouTube. YouTube, 27 Feb. 2009. Web. 06 Dec. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6AHDhmJXKo>.
We used this video in our website to add a visual and interactive item.
Helden, Albert Van, Elizabeth S. Burr, and Adam J. Thorton. "The Galileo Project." The Galileo Project. Rice University, n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014. <http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html>.
This was our main source for information on Galileo and his discoveries.
Hethertington, Noriss S., and W. Patrick McCray. "Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology." Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology. Ed. Spencer R. Weart. American Instutute of Physics, n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014. <http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/index.htm>.
We used this source to find information about tools used in astronomy before and after Galileo.
Hobden, Heather. "Astronomy in the 17th Century." Cosmic Elk. Heather Hobden, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.cosmicelk.net/telrev.htm>.
We used this source to learn and write about astronomy in the 17th century.
Library of Congress. Nicolaus Copernicus. Digital image. Nicolaus Copernicus Biography. Encyclopedia of World Biography, n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Copernicus-Nicolaus.html>.
We used this image in our website.
Machamer, Peter. "Galileo Galilei." Stanford University. Stanford University, 04 Mar. 2005. Web. 01 Jan. 2014. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/>.
We used this website to learn more information about Galileo’s life.
McNally, Joe, and Timothy Ferris. "Cosmic Vision." National Geographic July 2009: 22-27. Web.
We used this article to get information on the evolution of telescopes.
Næss, Atle. Galileo Galilei, When the World Stood Still. Berlin: Springer, 2005. Print.
This book was helpful to learn all about Galileo and his life.
One of Galileo's First Telescopes. Digital image. Solar System Exploration. NASA, 2 Feb. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=2246>.
We used this picture of one of Galileo’s first telescopes in our website.
Rabin, Sheila. "Nicolaus Copernicus." Stanford University. Stanford University, 30 Nov. 2004. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/>.
We used this source to find out about the Copernican theory and who Copernicus was.
"Time Line: A History of Telescopes." National Geographic Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
<http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/telescopesinteractive>.
This timeline helped us get a sense of what had been done before and what had happened after.
Ventrudo, Brian. Illustration of the phases of Venus as seen from Earth. Digital image. One Minute Astronomer. N.p., 14 Feb. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2014.
We used this illustration in our website.
Yarris, Lynn. "Keck Revolution in Telescope Design Pioneered at Lawrence Berkeley Lab." Keck Revolution in Telescope Design Pioneered at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. U.S. Department of Energy, 1992. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. <http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/keck-telescope.html>.
We used this website to learn about the evolution of the telescope.
Zax, David. "Galileo's Vision." Smithsonian Magazine Aug. 2009: n. pag. Web.
We used this source to find information on what people think of Galileo today.
Beck, Roger B. "A Revolutionary Model of the Universe." 1983. World History: Patterns of Interaction. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. 625. Print.
We used a quote Galileo said himself in our website. We also used this page as a starting point in our research.
Galilei, Galileo, and Helden Albert. Van. Sidereus Nuncius, Or, The Sidereal Messenger. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989. Print.
We used this source to gather quotes and to see how Galileo wrote and interpreted his discoveries.
Galilei, Galileo, and Stillman Drake. Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican. Berkeley: University of California, 1967. Print.
We used this source to find out why Galileo was convicted of heresy.
Galilei, Galileo. Galileo's Sketches of the Moon. Digital image. The Galileo Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014
We used images of these sketches in our website.
Galilei, Galileo. Galileo's 1610 Journal shows sketches of the objects around Jupiter which he later recognized to be moons. Digital image. Solar System Exploration: Science & Technology: Science Features: Our Solar System: Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun. NASA, n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2013.
We used this sketch that Galileo drew in our website.
Galilei, Maria Celeste, and Dava Sobel. Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo (1623 - 1633). New York [u.a.: Penguin, 2003. Print.
We used these letters that Galileo’s daughter wrote to him to learn about him and his personality.
Secondary Sources
Dejoie, Joyce, and Elizabeth Truelove. "Galileo Galilei." Galileo Galilei. N.p., n.d. Web. 06
Nov. 2013.
<http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/galileo.html>.
The site is supervised and edited by NASA so we used it to verify the information we got from other sites.
Digges, Thomas. Diagram of the Universe. Digital image. The Galileo Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014.
We used this picture in our website
Dunbar, Brian. "Telescope History." NASA. NASA, 23 Dec. 2003. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/telescope_feature_912.html>.
We used this source to gather information about science before and after Galileo.
Galilean Family Portrait. Digital image. Solar System Exploration. NASA, 5 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=2098>.
We used this image in our website.
"Galileo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica
Inc., 2013. Web. 06 Nov. 2013
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/224058/Galileo>.
This source was used to gather basic information to write about in our website.
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens. Dir. Brian McDairmant. Perf. Simon Callow, Laura Nardi, John Fraser, and Leiv Schreiber. PBS Video. N.p., 28 Oct. 2002. Web. 4 Dec. 2013. <http://video.pbs.org/video/2036276385/>
This movie’s information, by experts on the topic, was used to cross check the information we gathered from other sites.
"GALILEO'S TELESCOPE." World History Galileo's Telescope. Discovery Education. N.d. YouTube. YouTube, 27 Feb. 2009. Web. 06 Dec. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6AHDhmJXKo>.
We used this video in our website to add a visual and interactive item.
Helden, Albert Van, Elizabeth S. Burr, and Adam J. Thorton. "The Galileo Project." The Galileo Project. Rice University, n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014. <http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html>.
This was our main source for information on Galileo and his discoveries.
Hethertington, Noriss S., and W. Patrick McCray. "Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology." Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology. Ed. Spencer R. Weart. American Instutute of Physics, n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014. <http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/index.htm>.
We used this source to find information about tools used in astronomy before and after Galileo.
Hobden, Heather. "Astronomy in the 17th Century." Cosmic Elk. Heather Hobden, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.cosmicelk.net/telrev.htm>.
We used this source to learn and write about astronomy in the 17th century.
Library of Congress. Nicolaus Copernicus. Digital image. Nicolaus Copernicus Biography. Encyclopedia of World Biography, n.d. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Copernicus-Nicolaus.html>.
We used this image in our website.
Machamer, Peter. "Galileo Galilei." Stanford University. Stanford University, 04 Mar. 2005. Web. 01 Jan. 2014. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/>.
We used this website to learn more information about Galileo’s life.
McNally, Joe, and Timothy Ferris. "Cosmic Vision." National Geographic July 2009: 22-27. Web.
We used this article to get information on the evolution of telescopes.
Næss, Atle. Galileo Galilei, When the World Stood Still. Berlin: Springer, 2005. Print.
This book was helpful to learn all about Galileo and his life.
One of Galileo's First Telescopes. Digital image. Solar System Exploration. NASA, 2 Feb. 2011. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=2246>.
We used this picture of one of Galileo’s first telescopes in our website.
Rabin, Sheila. "Nicolaus Copernicus." Stanford University. Stanford University, 30 Nov. 2004. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/>.
We used this source to find out about the Copernican theory and who Copernicus was.
"Time Line: A History of Telescopes." National Geographic Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.
<http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/telescopesinteractive>.
This timeline helped us get a sense of what had been done before and what had happened after.
Ventrudo, Brian. Illustration of the phases of Venus as seen from Earth. Digital image. One Minute Astronomer. N.p., 14 Feb. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2014.
We used this illustration in our website.
Yarris, Lynn. "Keck Revolution in Telescope Design Pioneered at Lawrence Berkeley Lab." Keck Revolution in Telescope Design Pioneered at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. U.S. Department of Energy, 1992. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. <http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/keck-telescope.html>.
We used this website to learn about the evolution of the telescope.
Zax, David. "Galileo's Vision." Smithsonian Magazine Aug. 2009: n. pag. Web.
We used this source to find information on what people think of Galileo today.