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Author:

Valleriani, Matteo.

Title:

Galileo engineer / by Matteo Valleriani.

Publisher:

Springer,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxii, 320 p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Galilei, Galileo,--1564-1642--Engineering.--Engineering.
Galilei, Galileo,--1564-1642--Mechanical engineering.--Mechanical engineering.
Galilei, Galileo,--1564-1642--Contributions in mechanics.
Engineering--History--17th century.
Engineering--History--16th century.
Mechanical engineering--History.
Science--History.--History.
Scientific apparatus and instruments--History.
Motion--Philosophy.
Machinery.
Weapons.
Communication in science--History.

Notes:

"The Historical epistemology of mechanics ... the second study of the series"--P. xiii. "Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät I der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin"--P. [iv] Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.

Contents:

The historical epistemology of mechanics / a foreword by Jürgen Renn -- Introduction -- War and practice: Artist-engineers' apprenticeship and Galileo ; Instruments and machines ; Galileo's private course on fortification -- 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? ; Sources: Galileo's correspondence.

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 269.

ISBN:

9048186447 (acid-free paper)
9789048186440 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)471803645

LCCN:

2010922899

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)