The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy / William A. Wallace -- Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments / Peter Machamer -- Use and abuse of mathematical entities / Rivka Feldhay -- Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework / Wallace Hooper -- From Galileo to Au...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparallel...
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The Cambridge companion to Galileo / edited by Peter Machamer. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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English
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74VKVw63EPed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVw63EPed
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ISBN
1-139-00059-4
1-139-81570-9
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520/.92
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991023962505702626
