Galileo engineer
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Galileo engineer
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 269）
Springer, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and indexes
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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.
Table of Contents
The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics. A foreword by Jurgen 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)
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Index of Names
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