Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

by Drake, Stillman; Swerdlow, N. M.; Levere, Trevor H.

• ISBN13: 9780802081650
• ISBN10: 0802081657
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

Author Biography

N.M. Swerdlow is Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago. T.H. LEVERE is Professor and Director, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Part VII Galileo: Instruments	1	(57)
Galileo and the First Mechanical Computing Device	5	(10)
Tartaglia's Squadra and Galileo's Compasso	15	(18)
Galileo Gleanings VI: Galileo's First Telescopes at Padua and Venice	33	(12)
Galileo Gleanings XII: An Unpublished Letter of Galileo to Peiresc	45	(12)
Part VIII History of Science: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century	57	(254)
Euclid Book V from Eudoxus to Dedekind	61	(15)
Hipparchus -- Geminus -- Galileo	76	(11)
Bradwardine's Function, Mediate Denomination, and Multiple Continua	87	(18)
Medieval Ratio Theory vs Compound Medicines in the Origins of Bradwardine's Rule	105	(13)
Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science beyond the Universities	118	(13)
The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions of Mechanics in Renaissance Culture	131	(39)
Paul L. Rose
An Agricultural Economist of the Late Renaissance	170	(20)
Renaissance Music and Experimental Science	190	(18)
Music and Philosophy in Early Modern Science	208	(13)
Impetus Theory and Quanta of Speed before and after Galileo	221	(18)
Free Fall from Albert of Saxony to Honore Fabri	239	(19)
Impetus Theory Reappraised	258	(21)
A Further Reappraisal of Impetus Theory: Buridan, Benedetti, and Galileo	279	(18)
The Rule behind ``Mersenne's Numbers''	297	(5)
Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue	302	(9)
Part IX Philosophy of Science and Language	311	(68)
Back from Limbo: The Rediscovery of Alexander Bryan Johnson	315	(12)
A.B. Johnson and His Works on Language	327	(18)
Literacy and Scientific Notations	345	(19)
J.B. Stallo and the Critique of Classical Physics	364	(15)
A Bibliography Of The Writings Of Stillman Drake	379	(8)
Index	387
Illustrations follow page	220