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9780521581783

The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

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    9780521581783

  • ISBN10:

    0521581788

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-08-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the Church. It will be of particular interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Galileo available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Galileo.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix(2)
Preface xi
Introduction 1(26)
PETER MACHAMER
1 Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy
27(26)
WILLIAM A. WALLACE
2 Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments
53(27)
PETER MACHAMER
3 The use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited
80(66)
RIVKA FELDHAY
4 Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework
146(29)
WALLACE HOOPER
5 From Galileo to Augustine
175(36)
PIETRO REDONDI
6 Galileo's Copernicanism: The science and the rhetoric
211(33)
WILLIAM SHEA
7 Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory
244(27)
NOEL M. SWERDLOW
8 Galileo on science and Scripture
271(77)
ERNAN MCMULLIN
9 Could there be another Galileo case?
348(19)
RICHARD BLACKWELL
10 The god of theologians and the god of astronomers: An apology of Bellarmine
367(21)
MARCELLO PERA
11 The never-ending Galileo story
388(29)
MICHAEL SEGRE
12 The sepulchers of Galileo: The "living" remains of a hero of science
417(32)
PAOLO GALLUZZI
Bibliography 449(10)
Index 459

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