TY - BOOK AU - Valleriani, Matteo AU - Valleriani,Matteo TI - Galileo Engineer SN - 9789048186440 U1 - N74.1GG PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Springer N1 - 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 ER -