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124 SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS UP TO DESCARTES
20 Copernicus [3.33], sig. i.v.
21 This is the date of his matriculation; he did not actually move to Tubingen until
1589. See the article on him by Owen Gingerich in the Dictionary of Scientific
Biography.
22 Kepler [3.46], vol. 8, p. 9; Kepler [3.47], 38–9.
23 Kepler [3.46], vol. 3, p. 178.
24 Kepler [3.46], vol. 3, p. 366.
25 Astronomia Nova , seu Physica Coelestis, tradita
commentaniis De Motibus Stellae Martis, Ex Observationibus G.V.Tychonis Brahe.
26 The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. H.W.Turnbull et al. (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1959–77), vol. 2, p. 436.
27 Galileo [3.43], 50–1.
28 Galileo [3.43], 57.
29 Galileo [3.43], 93–4.
30 Galileo [3.43], 186.
31 Finocchiaro [3.65], 67–8.
32 Finocchiaro [3.65], 146.
33 Galileo [3.44], 416–17.
34 Galileo [3.44], 464.
35 Descartes [3.36], vol. 6, p. 60.
36 Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica…. Perpetuis
Commentariis illustrata, communi studio pp. Thomae Le Seur & Francisci
Jacquier Ex Gallicana Minimorum Familia, Matheseos Professorum (Geneva,
Barrillot, 1739–42), vol. 3.
37 Galileo [3.40], vol. 8, p. 202. In producing my own translations from the Discorsi,
I have made use of those by Stillman Drake in Galileo [3.45], whose volume
includes the page numbers from the Edizione Nazionale.
38 Galileo [3.40], vol. 8, p. 197.
39 Galileo [3.40], vol. 8, p. 198.
40 Galileo [3.40], vol. 8, p. 208.
41 Galileo [3.40], vol. 8, p. 212.
42 cf. A.R.Hall, Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century: A Study in the Relations of
Science and War with reference particularly to England (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1952), and M.Segre, ‘Torricelli’s Correspondence on Ballistics’,
Annals of Science 40 (1983) 489–99.
43 Descartes [3.36], vol. 2, p. 380.
44 Principia Philosophiae II. 11, in Descartes [3.36], vol. 8–1, p. 46.
45 Principia Philosophiae III. 52, in Descartes [3.36], vol. 8–1, p. 105.
46 The numbering is from the Principia Philosophiae (II. 37–40); it was different in
Le Monde, where the laws are deduced rather more vividly from God’s creation of
an imaginary world.
47 Sir Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System
of the World, trans. Andrew Motte, revised by Florian Cajori (Berkeley, Calif.,
University of California Press, 1934), p. 400.
48 Descartes [3.36], vol. 6, pp. 64–5.