Discourse, Mathematics, Demonstration, and Science in Galileo's Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arkady Plotnitsky (0000-0001-6462-2181, corresponding author), David Reed (0000-0001-9121-0932) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-64 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2001.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2089571275 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Galileo's Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences is, indisputably, one of the founding documents of the modern, mathematical sciences of nature. 1 As such, it is not surprising that it is more discussed (or, more accurately, referred to) than read. Galileo is accepted as the founder of a mathematized physics--one in which time, space, and motion are treated as physically measurable and, theoretically, mathematical quantities, and in which laws of motion, depending only on these quantities, are abstracted from the other properties that material bodies possess. He is also known as the founder of an experimental physics in which such physical objects, suitably idealized (or, more specifically, measurable quantities associated with [End Page 37] them, or with their idealized and mathematically formulated laws), are subject to verification and detailed examination. The Two New Sciences is the work in which all of this is set forth as the culmination of Galileo's lifelong study of the problems of motion and force, or weight ("force" is not exactly Galileo's term, but it is used by Stillman Drake in his translation)
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |