Galileo Engineer

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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 269, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 269

ISBN: 9048186447
ISBN 13: 9789048186440
Autor: Valleriani, Matteo
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxii, 320 S., 80 s/w Illustr.
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.06.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

This work systematically investigates and reconstructs the practical knowledge Galileo shared during his lifetime. Galileo shared many aspects of practical knowledge.These included the methods and experience of foremen and engineers active within various frameworks. Galileo did not always react to such scientific impulses in the same way. On the one hand, he not only shared practical knowledge, but also acted as an engineer, especially within the framework of the art of war at the end of the sixteenth century, and more so during the time he spent in Padua. On the other hand, his scientific achievements were largely based on and influenced by aspects of practical knowledge coming from particular disciplines and activities, without him ever becoming an expert in these disciplines. Two case studies, the first concerned with Galileo’s theory of the strength of materials and the second with his achievement of an atomistic heat doctrine, enable a focus on the early modern model of generation of new scientific knowledge based on the conflicting interaction between aspects of practical knowledge and Aristotelian theoretical assumptions.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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InhaltsangabeThe 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

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