Galileo Engineer [electronic resource] / by Matteo Valleriani.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789048186457
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2010.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXII, 320 p. online resource.
Dizi
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 2214-7942 ; 269
İçindekiler Notu
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?.
Özet, vb.
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 onthe early modern model of generation of new scientific knowledge based on the conflicting interaction between aspects of practical knowledge and Aristotelian theoretical assumptions.
Konu
History.
Science __ History.
Science __ Philosophy.
Architecture __ History.
Mathematics.
Physics __ Philosophy.
History.
History of Science.
Philosophy of Science.
Architectural History and Theory.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.