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Prelude to Galileo :

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9400984049

(Number (ISBN

9789400984042

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b537888

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Prelude to Galileo :

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[Book]

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

First Statement of Responsibility

by William A. Wallace.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1981

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(392 pages).

Series Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 62.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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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