Editorial

Gerhard Heinzmann

3-4

Introduction. 1564-2014

homage to Galileo Galilei

Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti

7-15

Per quelle confuse carte... the galilean De motu in Raffaello Caverni's reading

Francesco Crapanzano

17-33

What was the role of Galileo in the century-long birth of modern science?

Antonino Drago

35-54

Les De motu antiquiora de Galileo Galilei 

le lancement de la carrière du filosofo-geometra

Raymond Fredette

55-70

"it is impossible to deceive nature"

Galileo's Le mecaniche, a bridge between the science of weights and the modern statics

Romano Gatto

71-91

A galilean answer to the Needham question

Gennady Gorelik

93-110

Galilée, de l'Enfer de Dante au purgatoire de la science

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

111-130

Galileo's trattato della sfera ovvero cosmografia and its sources

Walmir Thomazi Cardoso

131-147

Thoughts on Galileo's work

Marco M. Massai

149-164

Galileo's la bilancetta

the first draft and later additions

Annibale Mottana

165-179