selected readings dialogues concerning the chief world systems by galileo galilei dialogues concerning two new sciences by galileo galilei galileo by stillman drake galileo at work by stillman drake galileo a life by james reston , jr. principia by isaac newton renaissance genius galileo galilei & his legacy to modern science by david whitehouse the man of numbers fibonaccis arithmetic revolution by keith devlin de revolutionibus orbium caelestium by nicolaus copernicus the archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquitys greatest scientist by revel netz and william noel mysteries of the middle ages and the beginning of the modern world by thomas cahill tycho and kepler the strange partnership that revolutionized astronomy by kitty ferguson the book nobody read chasing the revolution of nicolaus copernicus by owen gingerich a world lit only by fire the medieval mind and the renaissance by william manchester tilt - a skewed history of the tower of pisa by nicholas shrady galileos daughter by dava sobel the feud that sparked the renaissance by paul robert walker la gomtrie by rene descartes brunelleschis dome : how a renaissance genius reinvented architecture by ross king engineers and engineering in the renaissance by william parsons a history of mechanics by rene dugas the great physicists from galileo to einstein by george gamow heavenly intrigue by joshua and anne-lee gilder a brief history of time by stephen hawking history of the strength of materials by stephen timoshenko sprezzatura 50 ways italian genius shaped the world by peter depiro and mary desmond about the author d. allen henry is the author of three textbooks and more than one hundred journal articles and archival publications .