The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer.

Contributor Machamer, Peter K.

Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Descriptionxii, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"Cambridge companions to philosophy"--p. [iii].

Note:Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace. - Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer. - The 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. - The god of theologians and the god of astronomers: an apology of Bellarmine / Marcello Pera. - The never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre. - The sepulchers of Galileo: the "living" remains of a hero of science / Paolo Galluzzi.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-458) and index.

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