The Envious Tooth of Time

Pages from Galileo's Dialogo, 1632

Giornata Prima, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632

The opening page of the first dialogue, introducing Galileo's three interlocutors, and containing a filigreed border pattern and embellished initial (typical features of Italian printing of the time).

Dialogo terzo, p. 302-3, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632

Selected pages from the third dialogue.

Dialogo terzo, p. 320 with diagram of planetary orbits, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632

Salviati (representing Galilean views) discusses planetary orbits with Simplicio (representing the views of the church).

Dialogo terzo, p. 384 with planetary diagram, Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, 1632

A Copernican diagram depicting the orbit of a planet around the sun.