Galileo Engineer
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; 269;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2010
- Publisher Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication 6 June 2010
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789048186440
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 745 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXII, 320 p. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
War and Practice.- Artist-Engineers’ Apprenticeship and Galileo.- Instruments and Machines.- Galileo’s Private Course on Fortifications.- Practice and Science.- The Knowledge of the Venetian Arsenal.- Pneumatics, the Thermoscope and the New Atomistic Conception of Heat.- The Engineer and The Scientist.- Was Galileo an Engineer?.
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