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Tables of Contents for Galileo in Context
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Introduction An Engineer-Scientist, Artist, and Courtier at the Origins of Classical Science
1
10
Jurgen Renn
The Context of the Practioners: Mechanics and its New Objects
Galileo Engineer: Art and Modern Science
11
1
Wolfgang Lefevre
Hunting the White Elephant: When and How did Galileo Discover the Law of Fall?
11
142
Jurgen Renn
Peter Damerow
Simone Rieger
Domenico Giulini
The Context of the Artists: Astronomy and its New Representations
Gazing Hands and Blind Spots: Galileo as Draftsman
153
40
Horst Bredekamp
The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo
193
26
Sara Booth
Albert van Helden
The Contexts of the Church, Patrons, and Colleagues: New Science and Traditional Power Structures
Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church or The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation
219
20
Rivka Feldhay
Gassendi and l'Affaire Galilee of the Laws of Motion
239
38
Paolo Galluzzi
Replication or Monopoly? The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610
277
46
Mario Biagioli
Appendix: A Forgotten Controversy
Introductory Note
323
4
Jurgen Renn
Raffaello Caverni and his History of the Experimental Method in Italy
327
14
Giuseppe Castagnetti
Michele Camerota
An Excerpt from History of the Experimental Method in Italy
341
16
Raffaello Caverni
Antonio Favaro and the Edizione Nazionale of Galileo's Works
357
6
Giuseppe Castagnetti
Michele Camerota
Apocryphal Galilean Writings
363
8
Antonio Favaro
Emil Wohlwill, Galileo and His Battle for the Copernican System
371
4
Hans-Werner Schutt
The Discovery of the Parabolic Shape of the Projectile Trajectory
375
36
Emil Wohlwill
Bibliography to the Appendix
411