Galileo's claim to fame : the proof that the Earth moves from the evidence of the tides / William R. Shea.
Note galileane:
Isis CB, 96/1250 "'The precursor historian of science asks, 'What is Galileo's claim to fame?'; the contextual historian, 'What was Galileo's claim to fame', or, to phrase the question somewhat more precisely, 'What did Galileo think his clame to fame was? What was he prepared to stake his reputation on? What did he believe constituted his greatest and most enduring achievement?' The answer to the precursor type question is well known: The discovery of the law of free fall and the isochronism of the pendulum. The answer to the second kind of question is less familiar, and when it is known, it is often a cause of embarrassment, for Galileo took pride in the most ill-fated of all his arguments to prove that the earth moved: his explanation of the tides'"
British journal for the history of science Vol. 5 (1970), p. 111-127