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Galileo Engineer (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Galileo Engineer (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 269
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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.
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