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New Perspectives on Galileo Papers Deriving From and Related to a Workshop on Galileo Held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975

Robert E. Butts, Joseph C. Pitt

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Galileo's Scientific Method: a Reexamination.- Some Tactics in Galileo's Propaganda for the Mathematization of Scientific Experience.- Galileo Galilei and the Doctores Parisienses.- Descartes as Critic of Galileo.- Galileo and the Causes.- Galileo: Causation and the Use of Geometry.- Galileo's Matter Theory.- The Conception of Science in Galileo's Work.

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Key concepts: Galileo (satellite navigation), Causation, Philosophy, Epistemology, Geography, Remote sensing