Galileo Engineer

includes index and biblioraphy

War and Practice
Artist-Engineers` Apprenticeship and Galileo ............. 3
The Political and Economic Context ................... 3
The Education of Artist-Engineers .................... 7
Galileo`s Apprenticeship ......................... 12
From the Apprenticeship to the Workshop via the University ...... 15
The Buzz of the Workshop ........................ 19
Instruments and Machines ....................... 21
Galileo`s Balance Sheet .......................... 24
The Production and Organization of the Workshop ............ 26
The Military Compass ........................... 27
The Reduction Compass ......................... 38
The Surveying Compass ......................... 39
Other Instruments and Tools ....................... 41
Lenses ................................... 41
Glass Production ............................. 48
Adapting the Telescope for other Optical Devices ............ 53
Mirrors .................................. 60
Machine for Pounding Gunpowder .................... 66
Machine for Lifting Heavy Weights ................... 67
Water Lifting Machine .......................... 68
Galileo as a Military Engineer ...................... 69
Galileo`s Private Course on Fortifications ............... 71
The Structure of the Business ....................... 72
Mathematics for the Military Art ..................... 75
Military Architecture ........................... 77
Artillery Powered by Gunpowder ..................... 86
La sfera .................................. 89
The Science of Machines ......................... 91
Compounds of Simple Machines to Multiply Force ........... 104
Compound Machines Useful in the Fortress ............... 108
The Art of War and the Materiality of Machines ............. 112
Practice and Science
The Knowledge of the Venetian Arsenal ................ 117
Dating Galileo`s Work on the Science of Materials . ........... 120
The Key Question of the Machine Makers ................ 120
Galileo`s Cantilever Model ........................ 122
The Origins of the Renaissance Engineers`Cantilever Model ...... 124
Galileo at the Arsenal: The Aristotelian Nautical Questions ....... 132
Did the Venetian Arsenal Employ Galileo? ................ 138
Galileo`s Apprenticeship as a Proto . ................... 140
Galileo`s Masterpiece: The Oar Model .................. 150
Did Galileo Become a Proto? ....................... 152
Pneumatics, the Thermoscope and the New Atomistic
Conception of Heat ........................... 155
The Thermoscope ............................. 158
The Emergence of the Thermoscope ................... 160
From the Thermoscope to the Thermometer ............... 165
Empirical Data Provided by the Thermoscope .............. 169
The Reception of Ancient Pneumatics .................. 172
Galileo as a Pneumatic Engineer ..................... 178
The Functioning of the Thermoscope ................... 181
Galileo`s Doctrine of Heat ........................ 186
The Generation of a Heat Doctrine .................... 190
The Engineer and the Scientist
Was Galileo an Engineer? ........................ 193
Revolution of the Art of War ....................... 193
Galilei in the Current of Warfare ..................... 197
Beyond Engineering ............................ 199
The Aristotelian Engineer ......................... 203
Generation of Knowledge ......................... 206
Engineer-Scientists ............................ 207
Sources: Galileo`s Correspondence ..................... 213
Notes on the Translations ......................... 213
Galileo to G. Contarini in Venice. Padova, March 22, 1593 ....... 214
G. Contarini to Galileo in Padova. Venice, March 28, 1593 ....... 216
Galileo to A. Mocenigo in Venice. Padova, January 11, 1594 ...... 219
G. Sagredo to Galileo in Padova. Venice, January 17, 1602 ....... 221
G. Sagredo to Ga