Reinterpreting Galileo / edited by William A. Wallace.

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TextSeries: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 15.Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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9780813230894
0813230896

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Part I. Setting the stage. 1. Reinterpreting Galileo on the basis of his Latin manuscripts / William A. Wallace ; 2. Aristode, Galileo, and "mixed sciences" / James G. Lennox ; 3. Galileo and the Oxford Calculatores : analytical languages and the mean speed theorem for accelerated motion / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Part II. Contributions to science. 4. Galileo's astronomy / Owen Gingerich ; 5. Galileo and scientific instrumentation / Silvio A. Bedini ; 6. Reexamining Galileo's dialogue / Stillman Drake -- Part III. Faith and reason. 7. The rhetoric of proof in Galileo's writings on the Copernican system / Jean Dietz Moss ; 8. Campanella's defense of Galileo / Bernardino M. Bonansea ; 9. The methodological background to Galileo's trial / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.

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