Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

Official documents and letters, some in transcription, relating to Galileo.

1629-c.1930

11 volumes

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1929, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Much of this material comes from the collection of Count Paolo Galletti [ -1914], where it formed part of his Galileo Museum at his villa at Arcetri, called the 'Torre del Gallo'.