| Description |
xiv, 455, cii pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Consists chiefly of papers delivered at the Galileo Quatercentenary Congress held at the University of Notre Dame in 1964. |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliografia Galileiana, 1940-1964; being the second supplement to the original Carli-Favaro Bibliografia Galileiana": page [i]-lxxxii (3d group). |
| Contents |
Galileo : a biographical sketch / Stillman Drake -- The significance of Galileo's thought for the history of science / A. Rupert Hall -- Galileo and his precursors / James A. Weisheipl -- Giambattista Benedetti, critic of Aristotle / Alexandre Koyré -- The Florentine background of Galileo's work / Eric Cochrane -- Galileo's literary formation / Leonardo Olschki -- Galileo and the principles of dynamics / Paul Tannery -- Galileo's contribution to astronomy / Willy Hartner -- The influence of the early development of optics on science and philosophy / Vasco Ronchi -- Galileo, Newton, and the divine order of the solar system / I. Bernard Cohen -- Galileo's place in the history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer -- The instruments of Galileo Galilei / Silvio A. Bedini -- Galileo's methodology of natural science / Dominique Dubarle -- Galileo's use of experiment as a tool of investigation / Thomas B. Settle -- Mathematical mysticism and mathematical science / Ernst Cassirer -- The relationship between metaphysics and scientific method in Galileo's work / Edward W. Strong -- Galileo's "Platonism" : a reconsideration / Thomas P. McTighe -- Galilean physics in the light of Hesserl's phenomenology / Aron Gurwitsch -- Galileo's influence on seventeenth-century English scientists / Marie Boas Hall -- Galileo in English literature of the seventeenth century / Stillman Drake -- Torricelli's Lezioni Accademiche and Galileo's theory of percussion / Serge Moscovici -- A note on the disciples of Galileo / Anglio Procissi. |
| Subject |
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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| Added Author |
McMullin, Ernan, 1924-2011, editor.
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McMullin, Ernan, 1924-2011
Bibliografia Galileiana, 1940-1964.
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Carli, A. (Alarico).
Bibliografia Galileiana (1568-1895)
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Galileo Quatercentenary Congress (1964 University of Notre Dame)
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