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The Cambridge Companion to Galileo [electronic resource] / Edited by Peter Machamer

Author:
Machamer, Peter
Published:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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1 online resource (476 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- 2.Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- 3.The use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited / Rivka Feldhay -- 4.Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- 5.From Galileo to Augustine / Pietro Redondi -- 6.Galileo's Copernicanism: The science and the rhetoric / William Shea -- 7.Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory / Noel M. Swerdlow -- 8.Galileo on science and Scripture / Ernan McMullin -- 9.Could there be another Galileo case? / Richard Blackwell -- 10.The god of theologians and the god of astronomers: An apology of Bellarmine / Marcello Pera -- 11.The never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- 12.The sepulchers of Galileo: The "living" remains of a hero of science / Paolo Galluzzi.
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ISBN:
9781139000598 (ebook)
9780521581783 (hardback)
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