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Creator
Date
©2010
Location
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Netherlands
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xxii, 320 p.
Language
English
Size
25 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 235464
Folger call number: Q174 .B67
Folger holdings ID: 289159
Folger call number: Q174 .B67
Folger holdings ID: 289159
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references 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
Also known as
Extended title: Galileo engineer / by Matteo Valleriani
Related names
author: Valleriani, Matteo
subject: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
subject: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642