CONTENTS

     Contributors

     Preface

     Introduction
PETER MACHAMER

  1 Galileo's Pisan studies in science and philosophy
WILLIAM A. WALLACE

  2 Galileo's machines, his mathematics, and his experiments
PETER MACHAMER

  3 The use and abuse of mathematical entities: Galileo and the Jesuits revisited
RIVKA FELDHAY

  4 Inertial problems in Galileo's preinertial framework
WALLACE HOOPER

  5 From Galileo to Augustine
PIETRO REDONDI

  6 Galileo's Copernicanism: The science and the rhetoric
WILLIAM SHEA

  7 Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and their evidence for the Copernican theory
NOEL M. SWERDLOW

  8 Galileo on science and Scripture
ERNAN MCMULLIN

  9 Could there be another Galileo case?
RICHARD BLACKWELL

10 The god of theologians and the god of astronomers: An apology of Bellarmine
MARCELLO PERA

11 The never-ending Galileo story
MICHAEL SEGRE

12 The sepulchers of Galileo: The “living” remains of a hero of science
PAOLO GALLUZZI

     Bibliography

     Index