Galileo's account of astronomical miracles in the Bible : a confusion of sources / Bernard R. Goldstein.
Abstract:
In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Galileo considered two astronomical miracles in the Bible (the Sun standing still for Joshua, and the Sun's shadow going backwards on the steps [or dial] of Achaz), citing seven discussions of them in the previous literature. After examining the relationship of these texts to one another as well as to other early Biblical commentaries on which they depend, it is argued here that Galileo probably did not examine all seven works at first hand but that his real source was Magalhaens's commentary on Joshua published in 1612 (the most recent of the seven in which the other six are mentioned) and, in addition to the confusion already in the texts cited, Galileo added some confusion of his own
Nuncius A. 5, fasc. 1 (1990), p. 3-16