Contents
Introduction
Part I: Setting The Stage
1. Reinterpreting Galileo on the Basis of His Latin Manuscripts, William A. Wallace
2. Aristode, Galileo, and "Mixed Sciences," James G. Lennox
3. Galileo and the Oxford Calculatores: Analytical Languages and the Mean·Speed Theorem for Accelerated Motion, Edith Dudley Sylla
Part II: Contributions to Science
4. Galileo's Astronomy, Owen Gingerich
5. Galileo and Scientific Instrumentation, Silvio A. Bedini
6. Reexamining Galileo's Dialogue, Stillman Drake
Part III: Faith and Reason
7. The Rhetoric of Proof in Galileo's Writings on the Copernican System, Jean Dietz Moss
8. Campanella's Defense of Galileo, Bernardino M. Bonansea
9. The Methodological Background to Galileo's Trial, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Notes on Contributors
Index