Article ID: CBB758923806

Galileo and Buonamici on the Tides of the Sea: Was Something Omitted from the Dialogue? (2024)

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In his 1616 discourse on the tides, Galileo claimed that diurnal tides (that is, a single high tide and a single low tide each day) occurred in Lisbon, Portugal, bolstering his theory of the tides. Lisbon does not feature such tides, but in an exchange of letters in 1629–1630, Giovanfrancesco Buonamici provided Galileo with information on where such tides could be found. Buonamici referred Galileo to the Regimiento de Navegación of Andrés García de Céspedes, and to the Descrittione di Tutti i Paesi Bassi of Lodovico Guicciardini. Galileo omitted any information on where diurnal tides occurred from his 1632 Dialogue, perhaps unintentionally, leaving him open to criticism. Buonamici’s material militates against that criticism.

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Authors & Contributors
Helbing, Mario Otto
Naylor, Ron
Almeida, Bruno
Camerota, Michele
Carolino, Luís Miguel
Cartwright, David Edgar
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Publishers
Brill
Nistri-Lischi
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari Venice University Press
Tinta da China
Concepts
Tides
Physics
Mechanics
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Celestial mechanics
People
Galilei, Galileo
Buonamici, Francesco
Descartes, René
Borro, Girolamo
Brahe, Tycho
Cesalpino, Andrea
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
18th century
13th century
15th century
Places
Lisbon (Portugal)
Italy
Africa
Southeast Asia
Portugal
Spain; Portugal
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Università di Pisa
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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