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References
1
Cohen, I. Bernard. The Birth of a New Physics. London, England: W. W. Norton, 1960.

Discusses the history of physics as we know it today.

2
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio. New York, New York: Macmillan, 1914.

The oldest copy of Galileo's original work I could find.

3
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, translated by Stillman Drake. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1953.

4
Katz, Victor J. A History of Mathematics. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

5
Koyré, Alexandre. Galileo Studies. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978.

Explores Galileo's work and some of his contemporaries as well.