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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works. One of the con- quences of this is the proliferation of identities bestowed on this gure of the Italian Renaissance: Galileo the great theoretician, Galileo the keen astronomer, Galileo the genius, Galileo the physicist, Galileo the mathematician, Galileo the solitary thinker, Galileo the founder of modern science, Galileo the heretic, Galileo the courtier, Galileo the early modern Archimedes, Galileo the Aristotelian, Galileo the founder of the Italian scienti c language, Galileo the cosmologist, Galileo the Platonist, Galileo the artist and Galileo the democratic scientist. These may be only a few of the identities that historians of science have associated with Galileo. And now: Galileo the engineer! That Galileo had so many faces, or even identities, seems hardly plausible. But by focusing on his activities as an engineer, historians are able to reassemble Galileo in a single persona, at least as far as his scienti c work is concerned. The impression that Galileo was an ingenious and isolated theoretician derives from his scienti c work being regarded outside the context in which it originated.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works. One of the con- quences of this is the proliferation of identities bestowed on this gure of the Italian Renaissance: Galileo the great theoretician, Galileo the keen astronomer, Galileo the genius, Galileo the physicist, Galileo the mathematician, Galileo the solitary thinker, Galileo the founder of modern science, Galileo the heretic, Galileo the courtier, Galileo the early modern Archimedes, Galileo the Aristotelian, Galileo the founder of the Italian scienti c language, Galileo the cosmologist, Galileo the Platonist, Galileo the artist and Galileo the democratic scientist. These may be only a few of the identities that historians of science have associated with Galileo. And now: Galileo the engineer! That Galileo had so many faces, or even identities, seems hardly plausible. But by focusing on his activities as an engineer, historians are able to reassemble Galileo in a single persona, at least as far as his scienti c work is concerned. The impression that Galileo was an ingenious and isolated theoretician derives from his scienti c work being regarded outside the context in which it originated.

The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics. A foreword by Jürgen Renn

Introduction

First section: War and Practice
Chapter I: Artist-engineers' Apprenticeship and Galileo
Chapter II: Instruments and Machines
Chaper III: Galileo's Private Course on Fortification

Second section: Practice and Science
Chapter IV: The Knowledge of the Venetian Arsenal
Chapter V: Pneumatics, the Thermoscope and the New Atomistic Conception of Heat

Third section: The Engineer and the Scientist
Chapter VI: Was Galileo an Engineer?

Sources: Galileo's correspondence translated into English (38 letters)

References

Index of Names

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.6.2010
Reihe/Serie Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Zusatzinfo XXII, 320 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie
Technik Architektur
Schlagworte Apprenticeship • Arsenal • Art-Nature relationship • Art of war • Education • engineer • Epistemology • Fortification • Galileo • Galileo Galilei • Galley • Glass • Heat • Historical Epistemology • Mathematical instruments • Oar • Optical Instruments • Optics • Pneumatics • Practitioners • Science of machines • Strength of m
ISBN-10 90-481-8645-5 / 9048186455
ISBN-13 978-90-481-8645-7 / 9789048186457
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