The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer.
| Other author | Machamer, Peter K. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
| Description | xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Galileo |
| Contents | Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- Use and abuse of mathematical entities / Rivka Feldhay -- Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- From Galileo to Augustine / Pietro Redondi -- Galileo's Copernicanism / 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 -- God of theologians and the god of astronomers / Marcello Pera -- Never-ending Galileo story / Michael Segre -- Sepulchers of Galileo / Paolo Galluzzi |
| Local note | Little-307352--305131014167W |
| General note | "Cambridge companions to philosophy"--p. [iii]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-458) and index. |
| LCCN | 98013357 |
| ISBN | 0521581788 |
| ISBN | 0521588413 (pbk.) |