Causes and forces in 16th-century physics / William A. Wallace.
Abstract:
"In what follows we shall summarize Vitelleschi's explanations, not only as typical of what was being taught in Italy in 1590, but as probably giving a good insight into the way the young Galileo conceived of nature as both a cause and a force behind its various operations."
Note galileane:
Isis CB, 104/1153 "'In what follows we shall summarize [Muzio] Vitelleschi's explanations, not only as typical of what was being taught in Italy in 1590, but as probably giving a good insight into the way the young Galileo conceived of nature as both a cause and a force behind its various operations'"
Isis Vol. 69 (1978), p. 400-412