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'. The seven essays in the first part provide
textual studies of Soto's early formulations of the laws of falling
bodies, the context in which they were developed in the 16th
century, and the ways in which they were transmitted in Spain and
Portugal to the early 17th century, mainly by Jesuit scholars. The
following essays focus on the young Galileo and his work at Pisa
and Padua, leading to his discovery of the law of uniform
acceleration in free fall. Textual evidence is presented for an
indirect influence of Soto's work on Galileo, mediated by Jesuits
who were teaching at Padua in the first decade of the 17th century.
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