Galileo’s Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo was published in Italian in 1632. The book was placed on an index of forbidden books by the Inquisition in 1633 where it remained until 1835. The Smithsonian Libraries has posted a PDF of the 1632 publication, gifted to the Libraries, on the Internet Archive. Marvelous times. English translations are available from Modern Library and the University of California Press among others. An ebook version in Italian is available. The book was translated into Latin in 1635. An early English translation, probably the first translation from the original Italian outside of the Latin translation, is by Thomas Salusbury. Thomas Kuhn in a 1954 book review in Science magazine (vol. 119) about 1953 publications of English translations mentions that most copies of the Salusbury 1661 English translation were destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). There must be some extant copies. The Brereton-Macclesfield copy sold in 2005. A copy of Salisbury’s translation was offered for sale in 2015. Einstein wrote: `Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a mine of information for anyone interested in the cultural history of the Western world and its influence upon economic and political development.’ Given the historical significance of Galileo’s work, is there a library copy of the Salusbury translation that might be uploaded to the Internet Archive?
The Internet Archive allows you to borrow a pdf version for 14 days. See https://archive.org/details/dialogueongreatw0000gali
There may be other sources, but I have yet to run across one.
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