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Record Nr.

UNISA996205066403316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Galileo / / edited by Peter Machamer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-139-81570-9

1-139-00059-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Disciplina

520/.92

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

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 / 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 -- God of theologians and the god of astronomers / Marcello Pera -- Never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- Sepulchers of Galileo / Paolo Galluzzi.

Sommario/riassunto

Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned 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 interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.