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BL
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715734
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b537888
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by William A. Wallace.
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Prelude to Galileo : : Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought\ by William A. Wallace.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1981
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 62.
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(392 pages).
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9400984049
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: 9789400984042
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I: Medieval Prologue --;1. The Philosophical Setting of Medieval Science --;2. The Medieval Accomplishment in Mechanics and Optics --;II: The Sixteenth-Century Achievement --;3. The Development of Mechanics to the Sixteenth Century --;4. The Concept of Motion in the Sixteenth Century --;5. The Calculatores in the Sixteenth Century --;6. The Enigma of Domingo de Soto --;7. Causes and Forces at the Collegio Romano --;III: Galileo in the Sixteenth-Century Context --;8. Galileo and Reasoning Ex suppositione --;9. Galileo and the Thomists --;10. Galileo and the Doctores Parisienses --;11. Galileo and the Scotists --;12. Galileo and Albertus Magnus --;13. Galileo and the Causality of Nature --;IV: From Medieval to Early Modern Science --;14. Pierre Duhem: Galileo and the Science of Motion --;15. Anneliese Maier: Galileo and Theories of Impetus --;16. Ernest Moody: Galileo and Nominalism --;Index of Names.
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In this volume, Wallace provides the companion to his splendid annotated translation of Galileo 's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), pointing to the 'realist' sources, mainly unearthed by the author himself during the past two decades.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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William A Wallace
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