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Tables of Contents for Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part VII Galileo: Instruments
1
56
Galileo and the First Mechanical Computing Device
5
10
Tartaglia's Squadra and Galileo's Compasso
15
18
Galileo Gleanings VI: Galileo's First Telescopes at Padua and Venice
33
12
Galileo Gleanings XII: An Unpublished Letter of Galileo to Peirsc
45
12
Part VIII History of Science: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century
57
254
Euclid Book V from Eudoxus to Dedekind
61
15
Hipparchus - Geminus - Galileo
76
11
Bradwardine's Function, Mediate Denomination, and Multiple Continua
87
18
Medieval Ratio Theory vs Compound Medicines in the Origins of Bradwardine's Rule
105
13
Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science beyond the Universities
118
13
The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions of Mechanics in Renaissance Culture
131
39
Paul L. Rose
An Agricultural Economist of the Late Renaissance
170
20
Renaissance Music and Experimental Science
190
18
Music and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
208
13
Impetus Theory and Quanta of Speed before and after Galileo
221
18
Free Fall from Albert of Saxony to Honore Fabri
239
19
Impetus Theory Reappraised
258
21
A Further Reappraisal of Impetus Theory: Buridan, Benedetti, and Galileo
279
18
The Rule behind ``Mersenne's Numbers''
297
5
Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue
302
9
Part IX Philosophy of Science and Language
311
68
Back from Limbo: The Rediscovery of Alexander Bryan Johnson
315
12
A.B. Johson and His Works on Language
327
18
Literacy and Scientific Notations
345
19
J.B. Stallo and the Critique of Classical Physics
364
15
A Bibliography of the Writing of Stillman Drake
379
8
Index
387
Illustrations follow page
220