Homage to Galileo Galilei 1564-2014

Gerhard Heinzmann
Editorial 3

Homage to Galileo Galilei 1564-2014

Raffaele Pisano & Paolo Bussotti
Introduction. 1564-2014. Homage to Galileo Galilei 7

Francesco Crapanzano
Per quelle confuse carte… The Galilean De motu in Raffaello Caverni’s
Reading 17

Antonino Drago
What Was the Role of Galileo in the Century-Long Birth of Modern Science? 35

Raymond Fredette
Les De motu antiquiora de Galileo Galilei : le lancement de la carrière du filosofo-geometra 55

Romano Gatto
“It Is Impossible to Deceive Nature”. Galileo’s Le mecaniche,
a Bridge Between the Science of Weights and the Modern Statics 71

Gennady Gorelik
A Galilean Answer to the Needham Question 93

Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond
Galilée, de l’Enfer de Dante au purgatoire de la science 111

Roberto de Andrade Martins & Walmir Thomazi Cardoso
Galileo’s Trattato della sfera ovvero cosmografia and Its Sources 131

Marco M. Massai
Thoughts on Galileo’s Work 149

Annibale Mottana
Galileo’s La bilancetta: The First Draft and Later Additions 165