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Editorial Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Significance of Galileo's Dialogue | 1 |
2 | The Geostatic Worldview | 7 |
3 | The Copernican Controversy | 28 |
4 | The Galileo Affair | 38 |
5 | Historical Aftermath and Philosophical Prelude | 47 |
Selections from Galileo's Dialogue | 71 | |
Outline of Selections | 73 | |
To the Discerning Reader | ||
1 | Preface | 77 |
First Day | ||
2 | Natural Motion and Aristotle's Logic | 83 |
3 | Heavenly Changes and Aristotle's Empiricism | 91 |
4 | Life on the Moon, and Human versus Divine Understanding | 107 |
Second Day | ||
5 | Independent-Mindedness and the Role of Aristotle's Authority | 117 |
6 | Diurnal Rotation, Simplicity, and Probability | 128 |
7 | The Case against Terrestrial Rotation and the Value of Critical Reasoning | 142 |
8 | Vertical Fall, Superposition of Motions, and the Role of Experiments | 155 |
9 | Extruding Power and the Role of Mathematics | 171 |
10 | The Deception of the Senses and the Relativity of Motion | 212 |
Third Day | ||
11 | Heliocentrism and the Role of the Telescope | 221 |
12 | The Role of the Bible | 245 |
13 | Stellar Dimensions and the Concept of Size | 247 |
14 | Stellar Parallax and the Fruitfulness of a Research Program | 264 |
Fourth Day | ||
15 | The Cause of the Tides and the Inescapability of Error | 282 |
16 | Ending | 303 |
App. 1 | Critical Reasoning | 309 |
App. 2 | Methodological Reflection | 335 |
App. 3 | Varieties of Rhetoric | 356 |
Glossary | 373 | |
Bibliography | 399 | |
Index | 409 |
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Add Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide, Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical pr, Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide to your collection on WonderClub |