Reenacting Galileo’s Experiments by P. Palmieri

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth by G. van Brummelen 1
5. Eastern Astrolabes by D. Pingree 8
6. La Ggéographie de Ptolémée en occident (IVe–XVIe siècle) by P. G. Dalché 13
7. The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope by S. Y. Edgerton 16
8. In the Age of al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century by P. Adamson 22
9. Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Livre IV edited by R. Rashed 29
10. Alexander Aphrodisiensis, De anima libri mantissa edited by R. Sharples 43
11. Mathematics in India by K. Plofker 45
12. Omar al-Khayyam, Algebra wa al-Muqabala translated by R. Khalil 54
13. Reenacting Galileo’s Experiments by P. Palmieri 60
14. Science Translated edited by M. Goyens, P. De Leemans, and A. Smets 70
15. Averroes’ Physics by R. Glasner 79
16. Le parole delle Muse by E. Rocconi 90
17. Anubio Reconsidered 127
18. In memoriam: Ian Mueller (1938--2010) 193
19. A Response to Trifogli on Glasner, Averroes’ Physics 229
20. The Alchemy of Glass by M. Beretta 232
21. In memoriam: John Phillips Britton (6 December 1939 -- 8 June 2010) 250
22. Books Received 258