Note: links will become active once my book Galileo’s Library has been published

This page provides an overview of the data that supports the visualizations and analytics in Galileo’s Library: Data, Methods, and the Humanities (under review). There are several sources for identifying the books and manuscripts that were in the Galilei households:

• Books annotated by Galileo
• Books cited by Galileo
• Letters in which Galileo, family members, friends, colleagues, and fans discuss sending books
• An inventory of books in the Galilei home at the death of his son in 1649 (transcription link)
• An inventory of books in the Galilei home at the death of his daughter-in-law in 1669 (transcription link)
• The 232-page list of books owned by Galileo’s final student in 1702 (transcription link)
• The late 19th-century research completed by the editor of the national edition of Galileo’s works
• Michele Camerota’s review of the letters that discuss manuscripts specifically
• My earlier work to revisit these sources
• Other modern scholars who have identified connections between Galileo and other authors

The complete data set used for the book on the library can be found in Bowdoin’s Digital Commons: (link).

Subsets of the data for different chapters can be recreated using the following steps:

• Introduction: census of extant books authored by Galileo (data set link)
• Chapters: TBD in final production.