Reading Nature’s Book: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
Author:   Fred Ablondi
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   221
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9781433131356


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   28 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Fred Ablondi
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   221
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781433131356


ISBN 10:   1433131358
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   28 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Galileo and Philosophy: A Message from the Stars – A Dispute over Buoyancy – Inertia, Empiricism, and Spots on the Sun – Science and Religion – Troubles in Rome: 1615-1616 – Mathematics and the Book of Nature – Showdown – Matter and Motion.

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Fred Ablondi received his PhD. in philosophy from Marquette University. He is currently Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where he is also the Director of The Steel Center of the Study of Religion and Philosophy. He is the author of Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian (2005) as well as more than twenty articles on various topics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.

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