Routledge Domingo de Soto and Early Galileo - Intellectual History Essays

This second volume of essays by William A. Wallace explores the intellectual roots connecting Domingo de Soto's groundbreaking work on falling bodies to Galileo's scientific innovations. The collection examines textual studies of Soto's 16th-century formulations, the scholarly context of their development, and their transmission through Spain and Portugal into the early 17th century, particularly via Jesuit scholars. Wallace then turns to the young Galileo, analysing his formative years at Pisa and Padua to reveal how earlier Spanish and Portuguese scholarship influenced his revolutionary approach to physics. Part of the Routledge Revivals series, this work bridges Renaissance natural philosophy and early modern science, offering researchers and historians of science essential insights into how ideas about motion and the laws of nature evolved across generations and continents. Perfect for scholars studying the history of scientific thought, the development of physics, or the intellectual exchanges between Iberian and Italian centres of learning.