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When Favaro, Caverni and Wohlwill began to publish and comment on Galileo’s early notes on motion in the late 19th century, a new perspective was opened to the history of science: it was as if an important step in the formation of modern science could now be seen under the microscope. Indeed, in the Edizione Nazionale,1 which Favaro began publishing in 1890, not only all the published works, but nearly every work sheet that contains a single complete sentence of Galileo can be found.
It is my purpose … to show you Galileo in his working clothes, tending his scientific garden Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work
Rien, en effet, n’est plus instructive que l’erreur Alexandre Koyré, Etudes Galiléennes
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Galileo Galilei, Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, Favaro, A. ed., Nuova Ristampa della Edizione Nazionale, 1890–1909, reprinted Florence: G. Barbèra, 1964–1966 20 vols
Nicole Oresme, Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum, in Marshall Clagett, Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
See Stillman Drake, “Galileo Gleanings XXI. On the Probable Order of Galileo’s Notes on Motion”, Physis, 14 (1972) 55–68, and Drake, “Notes on Motion”.
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Renn, J. (1990). Galileo’s Theorem of Equivalence: The Missing Keystone of His Theory of Motion. In: Levere, T.H., Shea, W.R. (eds) Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 120. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1878-8_3
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