Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy
- 2 Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments
- 3 The use and abuse of mathematical entities
- 4 Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework
- 5 From Galileo to Augustine
- 6 Galileo's Copernicanism
- 7 Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory
- 8 Galileo on science and Scripture
- 9 Could there be another Galileo case?
- 10 The god of theologians and the god of astronomers
- 11 The never-ending Galileo story
- 12 The sepulchers of Galileo
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy
- 2 Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments
- 3 The use and abuse of mathematical entities
- 4 Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework
- 5 From Galileo to Augustine
- 6 Galileo's Copernicanism
- 7 Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory
- 8 Galileo on science and Scripture
- 9 Could there be another Galileo case?
- 10 The god of theologians and the god of astronomers
- 11 The never-ending Galileo story
- 12 The sepulchers of Galileo
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Galileo , pp. i - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998