XXII, 320 S.,
Ill., graph. Darst.,
235 mm x 155 mm
Bemerkung(en):
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.