Galileo reappraised
By: edited by Carlo L. Golino.
Series: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Contributions,; 2; Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ;; 2.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Congresses.; Astronomy -- Italy -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Renaissance -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Papers presented at a conference at the University of California at Los Angeles, Nov. 6-8, 1965, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's birth.
Table of contents: title: Galileo, man of letters, by D. Della Terza.; title: Galileo and his precursors, by E.A. Moody.; title: The rationale of Galileo's religiousness, by G. Spini.; title: The problem of force in Galileo's physics, by R.S. Westfall.; title: Pumps and pendula: Galileo and technology, by L. White, Jr.