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Prelude to Galileo :

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Prelude to Galileo :

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Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought

by William A. Wallace.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1981

(392 pages).

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 62.

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.

In this volume, Wallace provides the companion to his splendid annotated translation of Galileo 's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), pointing to the 'realist' sources, mainly unearthed by the author himself during the past two decades.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

by William A. Wallace.

William A Wallace

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