Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

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

Purchased 1929, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935 (accessions 52348, 59559, 64702, 67124, 68518A)

Collection description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

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'.

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).