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Prelude to Galileo

Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo’s Thought

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  1. William A. Wallace

    1. School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 62)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Medieval Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 3-28

    3. The Medieval Accomplishment in Mechanics and Optics

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 29-48

  3. The Sixteenth-Century Achievement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. The Development of Mechanics to the Sixteenth Century

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 51-63

    3. The Concept of Motion in the Sixteenth Century

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 64-77

    4. The Calculatores in the Sixteenth Century

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 78-90

    5. The Enigma of Domingo De Soto

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 91-109

    6. Causes and Forces at the Collegio Romano

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 110-126

  4. Galileo in the Sixteenth-Century Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Galileo and Reasoning Ex Suppositione

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 129-159

    3. Galileo and the Thomists

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 160-191

    4. Galileo and the Doctores Parisienses

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 192-252

    5. Galileo and the Scotists

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 253-263

    6. Galileo and Albertus Magnus

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 264-285

    7. Galileo and the Causality of Nature

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 286-299

  5. From Medieval to Early Modern Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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    2. Pierre Duhem: Galileo and the Science of Motion

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 303-319

    3. Anneliese Maier: Galileo and Theories of Impetus

      • William A. Wallace
      Pages 320-340
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About this book

Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo? William A. Wallace seems to have a historical grasp which will have to be matched by any further workers: he sees directly into Galileo's primary epoch of intellectual formation, the sixteenth century. In this volume, Wallace provides the companion to his splendid annotated translation of Galileo 's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), pointing to the 'realist' sources, mainly unearthed by the author himself during the past two decades. Explicit controversy arises, for the issues are serious: nominalism and realism, two early rivals for the foundation of knowledge, contend at the birth of modem science, OI better yet, contend in our modem efforts to understand that birth. Related to this, continuity and discontinuity, so opposed to each other, are interwoven in the interpretive writings ever since those striking works of Duhem in the first years of this century, and the later studies of Annaliese Maier, Alexandre Koyre and E. A. Moody. Historio­ grapher as well as philosopher, WaUace has critically supported the continuity of scientific development without abandoning the revolutionary transforma­ tive achievement of Galileo's labors. That continuity had its contemporary as well as developmental quality; and we note that William Wallace's Prelude studies are complementary to Maurice A.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., USA

    William A. Wallace

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Prelude to Galileo

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo’s Thought

  • Authors: William A. Wallace

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8404-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1215-8Published: 31 March 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8406-6Published: 25 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8404-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 372

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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