Introduction: Reading Galileo’s Letters, by Paula Findlen and Hannah Marcus

Part 1: Epistolary Strategies
Chapter 1. Galileo’s Epistolary Publications: The Art of the Scientific Letter, by Paula Findlen and Hannah Marcus
Chapter 2. Galileo’s Instruments of Fame: The Role of Correspondence in the Making of Galileo’s Reputation, by Anna-Luna Post
Chapter 3. Galileo and the Ambassadress: Friendship and Cultural Diplomacy in the Letters of Caterina Riccardi Niccolini, by Meredith K. Ray
Chapter 4. Doing Math Through Letters: Correspondence as a Means of Forging Community and Producing Mathematical Knowledge, by Renée Raphael
Chapter 5. Idle, Indecorous, and Excessively Festive: Letters from the Floating Bodies Dispute, by Eileen Reeves

Part 2: Hubs, Nodes, and Gaps
Chapter 6. Toward the Letter to Christina: The Circulation of the Letter to Castelli During the “First Galileo Trial,” by Salvatore Ricciardo
Chapter 7. The Missing Node: Antonio Santini Among Galileo’s Correspondents, by Federica Favino
Chapter 8. “A Piece of a Letter”: Tobie Matthew’s Role in the Circulation of Galileo’s Letter to Castelli, by Franco Giudice
Chapter 9. Missing Letters: Reconstructing Galileo’s Venetian Correspondence, by Hannah Marcus and Paula Findlen
Chapter 10. Textual Titubations: Galileo’s Letter to Alfonso Antonini, by Nick Wilding
Chapter 11. Unediting Galileo’s Letters, by Crystal Hall

Afterword: Galileo and the Republic of Letters, by Diego Pirillo

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index