In the last twenty years new Galilean studies begun to emerge from a relative slumber state, due to new documents, editions, and approaches. This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Congress Eurosymposium Galileo 2001, held in the northern slopes of Pico Tenerife under the aegis of Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia. It offers a snapshot of the state of the art after a long and sustained effort that broke new ground on Galileo, the man, his science, and his wider social and cultural milieu. The issues discussed include Galileo's mechanics, laws of motion and cosmology together with his role as a mathematician and philosopher. Mustering new evidence, some Chapters deal with Galileo's relationships with theology, religion and the Church, throwing new light on the infamous "affair" and the historical attempts at reinterpreting the trial. The impact and reception of Galileo's scientific and philosophical ideas are also examined in its European context.
      This Volume of more than 900 pages contains over fifty contributions by, among others, M. Clavelin, M. Finocchiaro, W. R. Shea, R. Fredette, A. Beltrán, M. Torrini, F. Beretta, M. Blay, M. Bucciantini, J. Renn, P. Damerow, T. Settle, P. Redondi, M. Lerner, I. Pantin, R. Gatto, R. Naylor, M. Pesce, V. Navarro, M. Helbing, C. Solís, E. Festa, W. Appelbaum, R. Baldasso, and L. Bianchi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Presentación

PARTE I. La ciencia de Galileo

CAPÍTULO 1. Galileo matemático y filósofo

1. Galilée astronome philosophe
MAURICE CLAVELIN

2. Galileo the Copernican
WILLIAM SHEA

3. El juego de la imaginación: Galileo y la longitud
JESÚS SÁNCHEZ NAVARRO

4. Un nuevo rol para las definiciones
MARUJA ARMIJO

5. Galileo Galilei e la probabilità
MARIO BARRA

6. Galileo e Archimede
SILVIO MARACCHIA

7. Galileo: la actualidad de un renacentista
CARMEN MATAIX

8. Los instrumentos científicos y la imagen del mundo. El caso del termómetro en Galileo y R. Fludd
INMACULADA PERDOMO

9. Galilée et Spinoza: le problème de l’infini
EPAMINONDAS VAMPOULIS

CAPÍTULO 2. La mecánica

1. Galileo’s De motu antiquiora: notes for a reappraisal
RAYMOND FREDETTE

2. Traces of an Invisible Giant: Shared Knowledge in Galileo’s Unpublished Treatises
JOCHEN BÜTTNER, PETER DAMEROW Y JÜRGEN RENN

3. Sull’edizione critica de le Mecaniche di Galileo
ROMANO GATTO

4. Galileo e le Questione meccaniche attribuite ad Aristotele. Alcune indicazioni
MARIO OTTO HELBING

5. Le "παρά φύσιυ" et l’imitation de la nature dans quelques commentaires du prologue
des Questions mecaniques
EGIDIO FESTA Y SOPHIE ROUX

6. Renaissance mechanics and the new science of motion
W. ROY LAIRD

7. A view on England’s forgotten Galileo: Thomas Harriot’s Ballistic Parabolas
MATHIAS SCHEMMEL

8. A view on Galileo’s Ricordi autografi. Galileo practitioner in Padua
MATTEO VALLERIANI

9. Inertia as a theorem in Galileo’s Discorsi
JÚLIO C. R. VASCONCELOS

10. Galilée et Antoine de Ville: un courrier sur l’idée de matiére
HÉLONE VÉRIN

CAPÍTULO 3. La cosmología y las leyes del movimiento

1. L’organisation déductive de la science du mouvement. Descartes-Galilée-Huygens
MICHEL BLAY

2. Galileo’s physics for a rotating Earth
RON NAYLOR

3. La cosmología oculta de Galileo
CARLOS SANTOS SOLÍS

4. Galileo and Kepler on the Sun as planetary mover
WILBUR APPLEBAUM Y RENZO BALDASSO

5. Galileo’s Cosmogony
JOCHEN BÜTTNER

6. Galileo y la naturaleza de la luz
SUSANA GÓMEZ LÓPEZ

7. Galileo’s astrology
NICHOLAS KOLLERSTROM

8. Galileo did not steal the discovery of Venus’prases: a counterargument to Westfall
PAOLO PALMIERI

9. La teoría de indivisibles de Galileo y su geometrización del movimiento
MANUEL SELLÉS GARCÍA

PARTE II. Galileo y la Iglesia

CAPÍTULO 4. El caso Galileo

1. Tratos extrajudiciales, determinismo procesal y poder
ANTONIO BELTRÁN MARÍ

2. Aspects of the controversy about Galileo’s trial (from Descartes to John Paul II)
MAURICE A. FINOCCHIARO

3. La réception de la condamnation de Galilée en France au XVIIe siècle
MICHEL-PIERRE LERNER

4. Urbain VIII Barberini protagoniste de la condamnation de Galilée
FRANCESCO BERETTA

5. Agostino Oreggi, qualificatore del Dialogo, e i limiti della conoscenza scientifica
LUCA BIANCHI

6. Melchior Inchofer, "un homme fin & rusé"
THOMAS CERBU

CAPÍTULO 5. Galileo y la tecnología

1. Libert Froidmont et Galilée: L’impossible dialogue
ISABELLE PANTIN

2. Gli ingegni senza limiti e il pericolo per la fede
MAURO PESCE

3. I problemi dell’atomismo
PIETRO REDONDI

4. Galileo and biblical exegesis
WILLIAM E. CARROLL

5. I criptocopernicani. Una lettura del rapporto fra censura e coscienza intellettuale
nell’Italia della Controriforma
FRANCO MOTTA

6. Tra Galileo e Descartes: l’esègesi biblica filocopernicana di Christoph Wittich
ANTONELLA DEL PRETE

CAPÍTULO 6. Revisiones históricas del caso Galileo

1. Galileo e la chiesa cattolica. Considerazioni critiche sulla "chiusura" della questioni galileiana
ANNIBALE FANTOLI

2. Juan Pablo II y los "Studi Galileiani"
MANUEL G. DONCEL

3. Pierre Duhem interprète de l’"affaire Galilée". Aux sources de l’Essai sur la notion
de théorie physique de Platon a Galilée
JEAN-FRANÇOIS STOFFEL

PARTE III. El siglo de Galileo

CAPÍTULO 7. Galileo y la cultura europea.

1. Galileo e la repubblica degli scienziati
MAURIZIO TORRINI

2. Novità celesti e teologia
MASSIMO BUCCIANTINI

3. Galileo y España
VÍCTOR NAVARRO BROTONS

4. Experimental sense in Galileo’s early works and its likely sources
THOMAS B. SETTLE

5. Logica e filosofia, logica della filosofia. Le Considerazioni di Vincenzio di Grazia sul Discorso
intorno alle cose che stanno in su l’acqua o che in quella si muovono di Gallileo
FRANCESCO PAOLO DE CEGLIA

6. "Quel petardo di mia fortuna": riconsiderando la "caduta" di Giovan Battista Ciampoli
FEDERICA FAVINO

7. Elie Diodati-Galilée: la rencontre de deux logiques
STÉPHANE GARCIA

8. Ogni speculazione del suo sovrano ingegno. Nicolò Aggiunti a Galileo in un inedito frammento
di carteggio del 1634
LUIGI GUERRINI

9. Galileo’s telescopic observations in Portugal
HENRIQUE LEITAO

10. L’immagine di Galileo nella Roma dotta
ALESSANDRO OTTAVIANI

11. Colleghi e avversari padovani di Galileo
ORESTE TRABUCCO

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