Galileo studies: personality, tradition, and revolution

by Drake, Stillman

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Full title :Galileo studies : personality, tradition, and revolution / Stillman Drake.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1970.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:1970.

The Physical Object

Description:289 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0472082833, 9780472082834
oclc:ocm00108748
LC Classification:QB36.G2
Dewey Decimal:520/.924

Physics and tradition before Galileo -- Vincenzio Galilei and Galileo -- The scientific personality of Galileo -- The Accademia dei Lincei -- The effectiveness of Galileo's work -- Galileo, Kepler, and their intermediaries -- Galileo and the telescope -- The dispute over bodies in water -- Sunspots, Sizzi, and Scheiner -- Galileo's theory of the tides -- Free fall and uniform acceleration -- Galileo and the concept of inertia -- The case against "circular inertia".