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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Drake, Stillman. Galileo studies: personality, tradition, and revolution. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1970] (OCoLC)624019415 |
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| Named Person: | Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei; Galileo Galilei |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stillman Drake |
| ISBN: | 0472082833 9780472082834 |
| OCLC Number: | 108748 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Physics and tradition before Galileo -- Vincenzio Galilei and Galileo -- The scientific personality of Galileo -- The Accademia dei Lincei -- The effectiveness of Galileo's work -- Galileo, Kepler, and their intermediaries -- Galileo and the telescope -- The dispute over bodies in water -- Sunspots, Sizzi, and Scheiner -- Galileo's theory of the tides -- Free fall and uniform acceleration -- Galileo and the concept of inertia -- The case against "circular inertia". |
| Responsibility: | Stillman Drake. |
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