Galileo in context /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4707649 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Introduction: An Engineer-Scientist, Artist, and Courtier at the Origins of Classical Science
- 1.. The Context of the Practioners: Mechanics and its New Objects
- Galileo Engineer: Art and Modern Science
- Hunting the White Elephant: When and How did Galileo Discover the Law of Fall?
- 2.. The Context of the Artists: Astronomy and its New Representations
- Gazing Hands and Blind Spots: Galileo as Draftsman
- The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
- 3.. The Contexts of the Church, Patrons, and Colleagues: New Science and Traditional Power Structures
- Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church or The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation
- Gassendi and l'Affaire Galilee of the Laws of Motion
- Replication or Monopoly? The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610
- Appendix. A Forgotten Controversy
- Introductory Note
- Raffaello Caverni and his History of the Experimental Method in Italy
- An Excerpt from History of the Experimental Method in Italy
- Antonio Favaro and the Edizione Nazionale of Galileo's Works
- Apocryphal Galilean Writings
- Emil Wohlwill, Galileo and His Battle for the Copernican System
- The Discovery of the Parabolic Shape of the Projectile Trajectory
- Bibliography to the Appendix
