Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science : : Volume 2 /

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science : : Volume 2 / / Stillman Drake; ed. by Trevor H. Levere, Noel M. Swerdlow.

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 of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Ga...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Drake, Stillman,
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Levere, Trevor H.,
Swerdlow, Noel M.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1999
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Part V. Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Title Page and Preface of Galileo's Dialogue
  • 2. The Organizing Theme of the Dialogue
  • 3. Reexamining Galileo's Dialogue
  • 4. Galileo Gleanings - XVI Semicircular Fall in the Dialogue
  • 5. Galileo Gleanings - XVII The Question of Circular Inertia
  • 6. The Tower Argument in the Dialogue
  • 7. Galileo Gleanings - X Origin and Fate of Galileo's Theory of the Tides
  • 8. History of Science and Tide Theories
  • Part VI. Galileo: Motion and Mechanics, including the Discourses on Two New Sciences
  • Introduction
  • 1. Galileo and the Law of Inertia
  • 2. The Concept of Inertia
  • 3. Galileo's Experimental Confirmation of Horizontal Inertia: Unpublished Manuscripts (Galileo Gleanings XX.II)
  • 4. Galileo's Discovery of the Parabolic Trajectory
  • 5. Galileo's New Science of Motion
  • 6. Galileo's 1604 Fragment on Falling Bodies (Galileo Gleanings XVIII)
  • 7. Uniform Acceleration, Space, and Time (Galileo Gleanings XIX)
  • 8. The Uniform Motion Equivalent to a Uniformly Accelerated Motion from Rest (Galileo Gleanings XX)
  • 9. Galileo's Discovery of the Law of Free Fall
  • 10. Galileo Gleanings - XXIII Velocity and Eudoxian Proportion Theory
  • 11. Galileo's Work on Free Fall in 1604
  • 12. Mathematics and Discovery in Galileo's Physics
  • 13. The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments
  • 14. New Light on a Galilean Claim about Pendulums
  • 15. Galileo's Accuracy in Measuring Horizontal Projections
  • 16. Galileo and Mathematical Physics
  • 17. Galileo's Physical Measurements
  • 18. Galileo's Constant
  • 19. Galileo's Gravitational Units
  • Index

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