From page 11: Galileo's treatment of the magnet in the Dialogue not only reveals his uncertainty about the scientific status of a new discipline of physics, but also his uncertainty about the way in which this new discipline might contribute to his status as a court scientist.
...MoreDescription A treatment of magnetism in Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems.
Book Detel, Wolfgang; Zittel, Claus (2002) Wissensideale und Wissenskulturen in der frühen Neuzeit: Ideals and Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Similar Citations
Thesis
Waddell, Mark A.;
(2006)
Theatres of the Unseen: The Society of Jesus and the Problem of the Invisiblein the Seventeenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001561618/)
Article
Manuel Bertolini;
(2016)
La Ruota Armonica: pitagorismo e scienza moderna in Federico Borromeo
(/isis/citation/CBB299301022/)
Article
Laura Georgescu;
(2017)
The Disponent Power in Gilbert's De Magnete: From Attraction to Alignment
(/isis/citation/CBB852888141/)
Article
Ariotti, Piero E.;
(1981)
Benedetto Castelli's Discourse on the loadstone (1639-1640): The origin of the notion of elementary magnets similarly aligned
(/isis/citation/CBB000009762/)
Article
Raimondi, Francesco Paolo;
(2004)
Cardano e Vanini tra sapere pre-scientifico e scienza moderna: significato e limiti della presenza cardaniana nei testi vaniniani
(/isis/citation/CBB000630822/)
Book
Andreas Lerch;
(2015)
Scientia astrologiae: Der Diskurs über die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Astrologie und die lateinischen Lehrbücher 1470–1610
(/isis/citation/CBB475633967/)
Article
Kassell, Lauren;
(2006)
“All was this land full fill'd of faerie,” or Magic and the Past in Early Modern England
(/isis/citation/CBB000660595/)
Article
Xiaona Wang;
(2019)
By Analogy to the Element of the Stars: The Divine in Jean Fernel's and William Harvey's Theories of Generation
(/isis/citation/CBB848009397/)
Book
Stark, Ryan J.;
(2009)
Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
(/isis/citation/CBB001021262/)
Article
Grainger, Brett Malcolm;
(2012)
Vital Nature and Vital Piety: Johann Arndt and the Evangelical Vitalism of Cotton Mather
(/isis/citation/CBB001213124/)
Article
Camenietzki, Carlos Ziller;
(2001)
Jesuits and Alchemy in the Early Seventeenth Century: Father Johannes Roberti and the Weapon-Salve Controversy
(/isis/citation/CBB000300038/)
Article
Sleigh, Charlotte;
(2012)
Jan Swammerdam's Frogs
(/isis/citation/CBB001251458/)
Book
Ulinka Rublack;
(2017)
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother
(/isis/citation/CBB283728684/)
Article
Vermeir, Koen;
(2004)
The `Physical Prophet' and the Powers of the Imagination. Part I: A Case-Study on Prophecy, Vapours and the Imagination (1685--1710)
(/isis/citation/CBB000501624/)
Book
Lomas, Robert;
(2003)
Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science
(/isis/citation/CBB000411013/)
Chapter
Janacek, Bruce;
(2000)
Catholic natural philosophy: Alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby
(/isis/citation/CBB000111562/)
Book
Johnstone, Nathan;
(2006)
The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England
(/isis/citation/CBB000930049/)
Chapter
López Pérez, Miguel;
(2007)
Ciencia y pensamiento hermético en la Edad Moderna española
(/isis/citation/CBB000953589/)
Book
Wilby, Emma;
(2010)
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
(/isis/citation/CBB001212289/)
Book
Sharpe, J. A.;
(2001)
Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England
(/isis/citation/CBB000102059/)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Perspectives on Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
Intellectual History Review
Be the first to comment!