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This page intentionally left blank THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GALILEO Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivaled 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 collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of particular interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians, and those in religious studies. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Galileo available. Advanced students and special- ists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpreta- tion of Galileo. CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO PHILOSOPHY AQUINAS Edited by NORMAN KRETZMANN and ELEANORE STUMP (published) BACON Edited by MARKKU PELTONEN (published) BERKELEY Edited by KENNETH WINKLER DESCARTES Edited by JOHN COTTINGHAM (published) EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Edited by A. A. LONG FICHTE Edited by GUENTER ZOELLER FOUCAULT Edited by GARY GUTTING (published) FREGE Edited by TOM RICKETTS FREUD Edited by JEROME NEU (published) HABERMAS Edited by STEPHEN K. WHITE (published) HEGEL Edited by FREDERICK BEISER (published) HEIDEGGER Edited by CHARLES GUIGNON (published) HOBBES Edited by TOM SORELL (published) HUME Edited by DAVID FATE NORTON (published) HUSSERL Edited by BARRY SMITH and DAVID WOODRUFF SMITH (published) WILLIAM JAMES Edited by RUTH ANNA PUTNAM (published) KANT Edited by PAUL GUYER (published) KIERKEGAARD Edited by ALASTAIR HANNAY and GORDON MARINO (published) LEIBNIZ Edited by NICHOLAS JOLLEY (published) LOCKE Edited by VERE CHAPPELL (published) MALEBRANCHE Edited by STEPHEN NADLER MARX Edited by TERRELL CARVER (published) MILL Edited by JOHN SKORUPSKI (published) NIETZSCHE Edited by BERND MAGNUS and KATHLEEN M. HIGGINS (published) OCKHAM Edited by PAUL VINCENT SPADE PEIRCE Edited by CHRISTOPHER HOOKWAY PLATO Edited by RICHARD KRAUT (published) PLOTINUS Edited by LLOYD P. GERSON (published) QUINE Edited by ROGER GIBSON ROUSSEAU Edited by PATRICK RILEY RUSSELL Edited by NICHOLAS GRIFFIN SARTRE Edited by CHRISTINA HOWELLS (published) SPINOZA Edited by DON GARRETT (published) WITTGENSTEIN Edited by HANS SLUGA and DAVID G. STERN (published) The Cambridge Companion to GALILEO Edited by Peter Machamer University of Pittsburgh CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521581783 © Cambridge University Press 1998 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublishedinprintformat 1998 - ---- eBook (Adobe Reader) - --- eBook (Adobe Reader) - ---- hardback - --- hardback - ---- paperback - --- paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofs forexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS Contributors page ix Preface xi Introduction PETER MACHAMER I 1 Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy WILLIAM A. WALLACE 2J 2 Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments PETER MACHAMER 53 3 The use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited RIVKA FELDHAY 8o 4 Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework WALLACE HOOPER I46 5 From Galileo to Augustine PIETRO REDONDI 175 6 Galileo's Copernicanism: The science and the rhetoric WILLIAM SHEA 211 7 Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory NOEL M. SWERDLOW 244 8 Galileo on science and Scripture ERNAN MCMULLIN 271 vii Vlll CONTENTS 9 Could there be another Galileo case? RICHARD BLACKWELL 348 10 The god of theologians and the god of astronomers: An apology of Bellarmine MARCELLO PERA 367 11 The never-ending Galileo story MICHAEL SEGRE 388 12 The sepulchers of Galileo: The "living" remains of a hero of science PAOLO GALLUZZI 417 Bibliography 449 Index 459
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