Peter Machamer (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

Herausgeber: Machamer, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780521588416
• ISBN-10: 0521588413
• Artikelnr.: 21646712

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Peter Machamer
1. Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy William 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 pre-inertial framework Wallace Hooper
5. From Galileo to Augustine Pietro Redondi
6. Galileo's Copernicanism: the science and the rhetoric William Shea
7. Galileo's contribution to astronomy and conflicts with the church Noel 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.