The Routledge guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue

Acknowledgments

Series Editor's Preface

Author's Preface

Abbreviations

Part I. Preliminaries To Reading The Dialogue

1. General Relevance

2. Intellectual Background

2.1. Cosmology

2.2. Physics

2.3. Astronomy

3. Historical Context

3.1. Copernicus's Innovation

3.2. Copernican Controversy

3.3. Galileo's Pursuit of a Copernican Research Program

3.4. Theological Controversy and Condemnation of Copernicanism

3.5. Trial and Condemnation of Galileo

Part II. Main Argument In The Dialogue

4. Day I: Similarity of Earth and Heaven

IA1. Perfection and three-dimensionality of the world (DML 9-15)

IA2. Aristotle's doctrine of two natural motions (DML 15-20)

IA3. A more coherent concept of natural motion (DML 20-36)

IA4. Geocentric argument from natural motion (DML 36-43)

IA5. Contrariety and change (DML 43-53)

IA6. Observation of heavenly changes (DML 53-66)

IA7. Teleology and anthropocentrism (DML 67-71)

IB1. Similarities between earth and moon (DML 71-82)

IB2. Roughness of the lunar surface (DML 82-100)

IB3. Moon's secondary light (DML 100-113)

IB4. Differences between earth and moon (DML 113-21)

5. Day II: Earth's Daily Axial Rotation

IIA. Simplicity arguments for terrestrial rotation (DML 123-55)

IIB1. Geostatic argument from violent motion (DML 155-58)

IIB2. Two-motions argument (DML 158-61)

IIB3. Vertical fall (DML 161-64)

IIB4. Ship's mast experiment (DML 164-79)

IIB5. Conservation and composition of motion (DML 179-95)

IIB6. East-west gunshots (DML 195-98)

IIB7. Vertical gunshots (DML 198-206)

IIB8. North-south gunshots (DML 206-8)

IIB9. Point-blank gunshots (DML 208-12)

IIB10. Flight of birds (DML 212-18)

IIB11. Extruding power of whirling (DML 218-53)

IIC1. Falling to earth from the moon (DML 253-71)

IIC2. Inexplicability of terrestrial rotation (DML 271-86)

IIC3. Deception of the senses (DML 287-98)

IIC4. Multiple natural motions (DML 298-306)

IIC5. Luminosity and mobility (DML 307-19)

6. Day III: Earth's Annual Heliocentric Revolution

IIIA. Evidence from the 1572 nova (DML 321-70)

IIIB1. Mars, Venus, and moon (DML 381-95)

IIIC1. Heliocentrism of planetary revolutions (DML 370-80)

IIIC2. Retrograde planetary motions (DML 396-400)

IIIC3. Paths of sunspots (DML 400-414)

IIIB2. Distances and sizes of stars (DML 414-32)

IIIB3. Apparent positions and magnitudes of stars (DML 432-61)

IIIB4. Magnets and multiple natural motions (DML 461-81)

7. Day IV: Geokinetic Explanation of Tides

IVA. Clarification of project and criticism of alternatives (DML 483-92, 535-39)

IVB. Explaining the diurnal period of tides (DML 492-506)

IVC. Air movements and trade winds (DML 506-16)

IVD. Monthly and annual periods of tides (DML 516-35)

Part III. Special Aspects Of The Dialogue

8. Science: Robust Confirmation of Earth's Motion

8.1. Scientists' Judgments

8.2. Three-fold Scientific Achievement

8.3. Critical Examination and Interdisciplinary Synthesis

9. Methodology: Critical Reasoning and Balanced Judgment

9.1. Rationality and Critical Reasoning

9.2. Authority and Independent-mindedness

9.3. Sensory Observation and Theoretical Reason

9.4. Mathematical Truths and Physical Reality

10. Rhetoric: Persuasion and Eloquence

10.1. Three Senses of Rhetoric

10.2. "Mere" Rhetoric

10.3. Rhetoric of Anti-rhetoric

10.4. Eloquent Expression

10.5. Rhetorical Communication vs. Methodological Reflection

10.6. Persuasive Argumentation vs. Critical Reasoning

Part IV. Conclusion

11. Historical Aftermath and Enduring Legacy

11.1. Historical Repercussions

11.2. From Copernicus to Darwin, Freud, and Beyond

11.3. Science vs. Religion?

11.4. Einstein and Scientific Method

11.5. Galilean Approach to the Galileo Affair

Appendix: Table of Cross-References among Editions

Selected Bibliography

Index