Image from Il Saggiatore

Lead researcher: Crystal Hall,  Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the Digital and Computational Studies Program at Bowdoin College.

Web developer: Richard Ohia (Bowdoin Class of 2024), Computer Science and Economics Double Major at Bowdoin College.

The project would not have been possible without the help of Gabriella Papper (Bowdoin Class of 2018), who patiently compared the Intratext version of Galileo's Il Saggiatore with the 1623 printing that serves as the basis for these visualizations.

"Title page; Il Saggiatore nel quale con Bilancia Esquisita e Giusta si Ponderamo le Cose Contenute nella Libri Astronomica e Filosofica de Lotario Sarsi Sigensano. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclib/x-990014770560106381/saggiatore_titlepage. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 09, 2022.

"Page 217; Il Saggiatore nel quale con Bilancia Esquisita e Giusta si Ponderamo le Cose Contenute nella Libri Astronomica e Filosofica de Lotario Sarsi Sigensano. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclib/x-990014770560106381/saggiatore_page_217. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 09, 2022.