Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science : : Volume 3 / / Stillman Drake; Trevor H. Levere, Noel M. Swerdlow.

• VerfasserIn: Drake, Stillman,
• TeilnehmendeR: Levere, Trevor H.,; Swerdlow, Noel M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work. During those years, Drake published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. Drake also published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. The three-volume collection Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science includes 80 of those papers. In the papers included in Volume III, Drake explores some of the more technical and practical aspects of Galileo's work, focusing on his contributions to scientific instrumentation. The essays then turn to the history of science, demonstrating the breadth of Drake's interests both beyond and relating to the work of Galileo. These interests are again evident in the final papers in the collection, in which Drake writes on the philosophy of science and language.This collection draws to conclusion Drake's writings on Galileo, capturing the influences and themes in Galileo's life and work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part VII. Galileo: Instruments -- Introduction -- 1. Galileo and the First Mechanical Computing Device -- 2. Tartaglia's Squadra and Galileo's Compasso -- 3. Galileo Gleanings VI : Galileo's First Telescopes at Padua and Venice -- 4. Galileo Gleanings XII: An Unpublished Letter of Galileo to Peiresc -- Part VIII. History of Science: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century -- Introduction -- 1. Euclid Book V from Eudoxus to Dedekind -- 2. Hipparchus - Geminus - Galileo -- 3. Bradwardine's Function, Mediate Denomination, and Multiple Continua -- 4. Medieval Ratio Theory vs Compound Medicines in the Origins of Bradwardine's Rule -- 5. Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science beyond the Universities -- 6. The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions of Mechanics in Renaissance Culture -- 7. An Agricultural Economist of the Late Renaissance -- 8. Renaissance Music and Experimental Science -- 9. Music and Philosophy in Early Modem Science -- 10. Impetus Theory and Quanta of Speed before and after Galileo -- 11. Free Fall from Albert of Saxony to Honoré Fabri -- 12. Impetus Theory Reappraised -- 13. A Further Reappraisal of Impetus Theory: Buridan, Benedetti, and Galileo -- 14. The Rule behind "Mersenne's Numbers" -- 15. Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue -- Part IX. Philosophy of Science and Language -- Introduction -- 1. Back from Limbo: The Rediscovery of Alexander Bryan Johnson -- 2. A.B. Johnson and His Works on Language -- 3. Literacy and Scientific Notations -- 4. J.B. Stallo and the Critique of Classical Physics -- A Bibliography of the Writings of Stillman Drake -- Index