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  title info:
    title: Galileo Engineer
  name:
    name part: Valleriani, Matteo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 320 p. online resource.
  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.
  table 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?.
  note: by Matteo Valleriani.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Architectural History and Theory
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 900
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 269
  identifier: 9789048186457
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8645-7
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    record creation date: 100623
    record change date: 20151204183851.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-8645-7