The Dialogue
- The princeps (first edition) of the Dialogue
- The frontispiece of the Dialogue
- To the discerning reader
- The conversational partners of the Dialogue
- Personalities connected with the Dialogue
- Dissemination of the Dialogue
- Criticism of Scipione Chiaramonti's "De tribus novis stellis"
- The appearance of the nova in 1572
- The imprimatur and the charges
- The admonition of 1616