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Prelude to Galileo - Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
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Prelude to Galileo - Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 62
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Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without
conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo?
William A. Wallace seems to have a historical grasp which will have
to be matched by any further workers: he sees directly into
Galileo's primary epoch of intellectual formation, the sixteenth
century. 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. Explicit controversy arises, for the
issues are serious: nominalism and realism, two early rivals for
the foundation of knowledge, contend at the birth of modem science,
OI better yet, contend in our modem efforts to understand that
birth. Related to this, continuity and discontinuity, so opposed to
each other, are interwoven in the interpretive writings ever since
those striking works of Duhem in the first years of this century,
and the later studies of Annaliese Maier, Alexandre Koyre and E. A.
Moody. Historio grapher as well as philosopher, WaUace has
critically supported the continuity of scientific development
without abandoning the revolutionary transforma tive achievement of
Galileo's labors. That continuity had its contemporary as well as
developmental quality; and we note that William Wallace's Prelude
studies are complementary to Maurice A."
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Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 62 |
Release date: |
March 1981 |
First published: |
March 1981 |
Authors: |
W.A. Wallace
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
372 |
Edition: |
1981 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-277-1215-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Science: general issues >
Philosophy of science
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LSN: |
90-277-1215-8 |
Barcode: |
9789027712158 |
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