An announcement of an important Galileo source.
Please excuse the cross posting
For all current and aspiring scholars of Galileo
&
For all those interested in the presentation of manuscript resources
on the Web for research purposes.
Under the sponsorship of:
The Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence
The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza of Florence
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin
The BNCF Codex Ms. Gal. 72 (Folios 33 to 196) is now available at:
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/index.htm
Available are high quality scanned images of the folio pages, transcriptions
of the textual material, expansions of the origianl Italian and Latin texts,
redering of the line drawings and calculations, translations into English,
cross referencing links, bibliographies, and other support material.
In substance, this is an on-line critical edition of these folios.
Scholarly participation is invited towards the continued growth of the
database.
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