Galileo Reappraised

✍ Scribed by Carlo L. Golino (editor)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Series: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Contributions; 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

✦ Table of Contents

THE CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
CONTENTS
I. GALILEO, MAN OF LETTERS
II. GALILEO AND HIS PRECURSORS
III. THE RATIONALE OF GALILEO'S RELIGIOUSNESS
IV. THE PROBLEM OF FORCE IN GALILEO'S PHYSICS
V. PUMPS AND PENDULA: GALILEO AND TECHNOLOGY