Galileo Engineer

• Main Author: Valleriani, Matteo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 269
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy and science.; Architecture.; Mathematics.; Physics.; History, general.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; Architectural History and Theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 s...

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?.