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The Path to Post-Galilean EpistemologySkills and Mathematics in Renaissance Italy

The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology: Skills and Mathematics in Renaissance Italy [Mixed mathematics in the early modern era began to receive new stimuli as a result of changes in society due to a different relationship, more active, of man with nature. One of the characteristics of the new development of society was the interest toward a kind of applied mathematics, known as mathematics of abacus. They were somehow the technological counterpart of the classical mixed mathematics, poorer from a theoretical point of view but richer for the greater amount of afforded arguments. Their knowledge was indispensable for crafts, trade, and the exercise of civil and military public activities. The medieval engineers-craftsmen turned to some degree to engineers-scientists, inaugurating a blend of science and technology in a way not yet clarified by historians. Stimuli from society also had influence in the development of certain disciplines that next to an important theoretical content also had an equally important applicative content: alchemy that gave a vital contribution to metallurgy and the emerging chemical industry. It was natural magic that dealt with technological aspects related to the use of machines, optics, and pneumatics, and finally, medicine, which was forced to revise its theories in the light of new diseases imported from the New World.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Path to Post-Galilean EpistemologySkills and Mathematics in Renaissance Italy

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-58309-9
Pages
69 –145
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58310-5_2
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[Mixed mathematics in the early modern era began to receive new stimuli as a result of changes in society due to a different relationship, more active, of man with nature. One of the characteristics of the new development of society was the interest toward a kind of applied mathematics, known as mathematics of abacus. They were somehow the technological counterpart of the classical mixed mathematics, poorer from a theoretical point of view but richer for the greater amount of afforded arguments. Their knowledge was indispensable for crafts, trade, and the exercise of civil and military public activities. The medieval engineers-craftsmen turned to some degree to engineers-scientists, inaugurating a blend of science and technology in a way not yet clarified by historians. Stimuli from society also had influence in the development of certain disciplines that next to an important theoretical content also had an equally important applicative content: alchemy that gave a vital contribution to metallurgy and the emerging chemical industry. It was natural magic that dealt with technological aspects related to the use of machines, optics, and pneumatics, and finally, medicine, which was forced to revise its theories in the light of new diseases imported from the New World.]

Published: Jul 9, 2017

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