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The Cambridge companion to Galileo

By Galilei , Galileo;Machamer , Peter K

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780521581783, 9780511222504, 0511222505, 0521581788, 0521588413, 9781139000598, 1139000594
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24878427 bytes)
Series
Cambridge collections online.; Cambridge companions complete collection.; Cambridge companions to philosophy religion and culture
Pages
(xii, 458 pages) : digital, PDF file\476
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

What did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? In this collection, contributors' essays offer coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. Introduction / Peter Machamer -- Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- The use and abuse of mathematical entities / Rivka Feldhay -- Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- From Galileo to Augustine / Pietro Redondi -- Galileo's Copernicanism / William Shea -- Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory / Noel M. Swerdlow -- Galileo on science and Scripture / Ernan Mcmullin -- Could there be another Galileo case? / Richard Blackwell -- The god of theologians and the god of astronomers / Marcello Pera -- The never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- The sepulchers of Galileo / Paolo Galluzzi.

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