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Galileo

Galileo

Galileo

Would need to use a different edition

Petri Gassendi Institutio astronomica, juxta hypotheses tam veterum quàm recentiorum. Cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuntius sidereus, et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice Londini, typis Jacobi Flesher, 1653  Spec Coll QB41 .G2 1653  

It helps to search "Galilei, Galileo" to avoid all teh NASA documents on Galileo spacecraft and it's mission.

We will have many books and documents on the sciences that came out of his work.

  • Telescope
    • Space travel
    • sea navagation
    • astronomy
  • NASA history [electronic resource] : news and notes Electronic coverage as of Nov. 20, 2003: Vol. 13, no. 2 (spring 1996)-
  • "Before this decade is out--" : personal reflections on the Apollo Program / edited by Glen E. Swanson StLib Federal Documents  NAS 1.21:4223     
  • Beyond the atmosphere : early years of space science / Homer E. Newell  StLib Federal Documents  NAS 1.21:4211   
  • Exploring the unknown : selected documents in the history of the U.S. civil space program /  StLib Federal Documents  NAS 1.21:4407  
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS90949
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS90950
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS69888
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS69889
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS69890
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS69892
    Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS108582

impact

  Focus history of the Hubble Space Telescope, launch to May 1993 [microform]
StLib
Hasan, H
[Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service, distributor, 1993]
 
 1993
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Note
 StLib Fed Doc Microfiche  NAS 1.26:194179     AVAILABLE  

 

 
 		 Power to explore : a history of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990
CCSU, ECSU, Online, StLib
Dunar, Andrew J
Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Office, Office of Policy and Plans : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1999
 
 1999
PRINT+ONLINE
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Note
 StLib Federal Documents  NAS 1.21:4313     AVAILABLE  
 
 
 From engineering science to big science : the NACA and NASA Collier Trophy research project winners
ECSU, CCSU, Online, StLib

Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Office of Policy and Plans, NASA History Office, 1998
 
 1998
PRINT+ONLINE
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Note
 StLib Federal Documents  NAS 1.21:4219     AVAILABLE  
   
 		 The directed telescope [electronic resource] : a traditional element of effective command
Online, StLib, WCSU
Griffin, Gary B
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute, [1991]
 
 1991
PRINT+ONLINE
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Note
 StLib Federal Documents  D 110.2:T 23     AVAILABLE  
   
 
 
 Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate: three 19th century American telescope makers.
StLib

Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1962
 
 1962
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Note
 StLib Federal Documents

 SI 3.3:228/26   

 

 

Other Institutions

Other Institutions

  • Galileo Galilei - 400 Years of Stellar Observations - from NASA

  • Galileo's Vision.Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist looked into space and changed our view of the universe. by David Zax. Smithsonian Magazine August 2009

  • Our Solar System: Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun. bottom of page has links to Galileo Galilei's exploration legacy
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