"The Historical epistemology of mechanics ... the second study of the series"--P.iii.
"Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakulteat I der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin"--P. [iv]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
The historical epistemology of mechanics / a foreword by Jeurgen 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.