Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo: Essays on Intellectual History

ISBN-13: 9781138619487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 360 str.

William A. Wallace

Opis

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A. Wallace to be published in the Variorum series is signaled in the title of the opening paper: 'Domingo de Soto and the Iberian roots of Galileo's science'.  Textual evidence is presented for an indirect influence of Soto's work on Galileo.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Domingo de Soto: Domingo de Soto and the Iberian roots of Galileo's science; The enigma of Domingo de Soto: Uniformiter difformis and falling bodies in late medieval physics; Domingo de Soto‘s laws of motion: text and context; Late 16th-century Portuguese manuscripts relating to Galileo's early notebooks; Duhem and Koyr n Domingo de Soto; Quantification in 16th-century natural philosophy; The certitude of science in Late Medieval and Renaissance thought; The Early Galileo: Galileo‘s sources: manuscripts or printed works?; Galileo's concept of science: recent manuscript evidence; The dating and significance of Galileo's Pisan manuscripts; Galileo‘s Pisan studies in science and philosophy; Circularity and the Paduan Regressus: from Pietro d'Abano to Galileo Galilei; Galileo's regressive methodology, its prelude and its sequel; Dialectics, experiments, and mathematics in Galileo; Index.

O autorze

William A Walace