Prelude to Galileo [electronic resource] : Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought / by William A. Wallace.
Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo? William A. Wallace seems to have a historical grasp which will have to be matched by any further workers: he sees directly into Galileo's primary epoch of intellectual...
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1981.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
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Table of Contents:
- I: Medieval Prologue
- 1. The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science
- 2. The Medieval Accomplishment in Mechanics and Optics
- II: The Sixteenth-Century Achievement
- 3. The Development of Mechanics to the Sixteenth Century
- 4. The Concept of Motion in the Sixteenth Century
- 5. The Calculatores in the Sixteenth Century
- 6. The Enigma of Domingo de Soto
- 7. Causes and Forces at the Collegio Romano
- III: Galileo in the Sixteenth-Century Context
- 8. Galileo and Reasoning Ex suppositione
- 9. Galileo and the Thomists
- 10. Galileo and the Doctores Parisienses
- 11. Galileo and the Scotists
- 12. Galileo and Albertus Magnus
- 13. Galileo and the Causality of Nature
- IV: From Medieval to Early Modern Science
- 14. Pierre Duhem: Galileo and the Science of Motion
- 15. Anneliese Maier: Galileo and Theories of Impetus
- 16. Ernest Moody: Galileo and Nominalism
- Index of Names.