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The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer.

Contributor(s): Machamer, Peter K
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companions to philosophy: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521588413 (pbk.); 0521581788Other title: GalileoSubject(s): Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Science -- Philosophy -- HistoryDDC classification: 520/.92 LOC classification: QB36.G2 | C27 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-458) and index.
Contents:
Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- Use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited / Rivka Feldhay -- Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- From Galileo to Augustine / Pietro Redondi -- Galileo's Copernicanism: the science and the rhetoric / 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 -- God of theologians and the god of astronomers: an apology of Bellarmine / Marcello Pera -- Never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- Sepulchers of Galileo: the "living" remains of a hero of science / Paolo Galluzzi

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-458) and index.

Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- Use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited / Rivka Feldhay -- Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- From Galileo to Augustine / Pietro Redondi -- Galileo's Copernicanism: the science and the rhetoric / 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 -- God of theologians and the god of astronomers: an apology of Bellarmine / Marcello Pera -- Never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- Sepulchers of Galileo: the "living" remains of a hero of science / Paolo Galluzzi

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