ISBN:
9789048186457
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXII, 320p, digital)
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 269
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Valleriani, Matteo Galileo engineer
Keywords:
Science History
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Science Philosophy
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Architecture
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Mathematics_$xHistory
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Science, general
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Architecture
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Science History
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Science Philosophy
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Mathematics_$xHistory
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Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642
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Militärtechnik
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Temperaturmessung
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Pneumatik
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Ingenieurwissenschaften
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Geschichte 1590-1700
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Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642
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Militärtechnik
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Temperaturmessung
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Pneumatik
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Ingenieurwissenschaften
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Geschichte 1590-1700
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword: The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics; Introduction; Structure of the Book; How to Read this Book; Part I War and Practice; 1 Artist-Engineers Apprenticeship and Galileo; The Political and Economic Context; The Education of Artist-Engineers; Galileos Apprenticeship; From the Apprenticeship to the Workshop via the University; The Buzz of the Workshop; 2 Instruments and Machines; Galileos Balance Sheet; The Production and Organization of the Workshop; The Military Compass; The Reduction Compass; The Surveying Compass; Other Instruments and Tools; Lenses; Glass Production
Description / Table of Contents:
Adapting the Telescope for other Optical DevicesMirrors; Machine for Pounding Gunpowder; Machine for Lifting Heavy Weights; Water Lifting Machine; Galileo as a Military Engineer; 3 Galileos Private Course on Fortifications; The Structure of the Business; Mathematics for the Military Art; Military Architecture; Artillery Powered by Gunpowder; La sfera; The Science of Machines; Compounds of Simple Machines to Multiply Force; Compound Machines Useful in the Fortress; The Art of War and the Materiality of Machines; Part II Practice and Science; 4 The Knowledge of the Venetian Arsenal
Description / Table of Contents:
Dating Galileos Work on the Science of MaterialsThe Key Question of the Machine Makers; Galileos Cantilever Model; The Origins of the Renaissance Engineers Cantilever Model; Galileo at the Arsenal: The Aristotelian Nautical Questions; Did the Venetian Arsenal Employ Galileo?; Galileos Apprenticeship as a Proto; Galileos Masterpiece: The Oar Model; Did Galileo Become a Proto?; 5 Pneumatics, the Thermoscope and the New Atomistic Conception of Heat; The Thermoscope; The Emergence of the Thermoscope; From the Thermoscope to the Thermometer; Empirical Data Provided by the Thermoscope
Description / Table of Contents:
The Reception of Ancient PneumaticsGalileo as a Pneumatic Engineer; The Functioning of the Thermoscope; Galileos Doctrine of Heat; The Generation of a Heat Doctrine; Part III The Engineer and the Scientist; 6 Was Galileo an Engineer?; Revolution of the Art of War; Galilei in the Current of Warfare; Beyond Engineering; The Aristotelian Engineer; Generation of Knowledge; Engineer-Scientists; Sources: Galileo's Correspondence; Notes on the Translations; Galileo to G. Contarini in Venice. Padova, March 22, 1593; G. Contarini to Galileo in Padova. Venice, March 28, 1593
Description / Table of Contents:
Galileo to A. Mocenigo in Venice. Padova, January 11, 1594G. Sagredo to Galileo in Padova. Venice, January 17, 1602; G. Sagredo to Galileo in Padova. Venice, August 23, 1602; Galileo to A. de Medici in Florence. Padova, February 11, 1609; G. Bartoli to B. Vinta in Florence. Venice, September 26, 1609; M. Hastal to Galileo in Florence. Prague, August 24, 1610; D. Antonini to Galileo in Florence. Brussels, February 4, 1612; G. Sagredo to Galileo in Florence. Venice, June 30, 1612; G. Sagredo to Galileo in Florence. Venice, May 9, 1613; G. Sagredo to Galileo in Florence. Venice, July 27, 1613
Description / Table of Contents:
G. Sagredo to Galileo in Florence. Venice, August 24, 1613
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and indexes
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-8645-7
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