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  title info:
    title: Galileo, human knowledge, and the book of nature
    sub title: method replaces metaphysics
  name:
    name part: Pitt, Joseph C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 201 pages)
  abstract: Galileo is revered as one of the founders of modern science primarily because of such discoveries as the law of falling bodies and the moons of Jupiter. In addition to his scientific achievements, Professor Pitt argues that Galileo deserves increased attention for his contributions to the methodology of the new science and that his method retains its value even today. In a detailed analysis of Galileo's mature works, Pitt reconstructs crucial features of Galileo's epistemology. He shows how Galileo's methodological insights grew out of an appreciation of the limits of human knowledge and he brings fresh insight to our concept of Galileo's methodology and its implications for contemporary debates. Working from Galileo's insistence on the contrast between the number of things that can be known and the limited abilities of human knowers, Pitt shows how Galileo's commonsense approach to rationality permits the development of a robust scientific method. At the same time, Pitt argues that we should correct our picture of Galileo, the culture hero. Instead of seeing him as a martyr to the cause of truth, Galileo is best understood as a man of his times who was responding to a variety of social pressures during a period of intellectual and political turmoil. This book will be of interest to philosophers and to historians and sociologists of science as well as to a general readership interested in the scientific revolution.
  note: by Joseph C. Pitt.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-193) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Galilei, Galileo
      name part: 1564-1642
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Galilei, Galileo
      name part: 1564-1642
    topic: Et les sciences
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Galilei, Galileo
      name part: (1564-1642)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Galilei, Galileo
      name part: 1564-1642
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Connaissance, Théorie de la
  subject:
    topic: Kennistheorie
  subject:
    topic: Wetenschappelijke technieken
  subject:
    topic: Kennis
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  classification: Q175 .P545 1992
  classification: 500
  classification: 08.24
  classification: 08.03
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    title info:
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      name part: Pitt, Joseph C.
    origin info:
      publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1992
    identifier: (DLC) 91037634
    identifier: (OCoLC)24590327
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    record creation date: 100519
    record change date: 20260422202953.1
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      language term: eng