eprintid: 2023
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 20
dir: disk0/00/00/20/23
datestamp: 2013-12-03 15:47:46
lastmod: 2013-12-03 15:47:46
status_changed: 2013-12-03 15:47:46
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Gattei, Stefano
creators_id: stefano.gattei@imtlucca.it
title: "Per desiderio del vero e delle sue cause": Galileo astronomo filosofo
ispublished: pub
subjects: B1
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
abstract: This paper provides the framework for understanding Galileo’s request to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in 1610, to be appointed in Florence as both Mathematician and Philosopher. By explicitly choosing such a title, he wished to stress the fact that his own work aimed at contributing to the new physical astronomy with which Copernicus inaugurated what is now called the Scientific Revolution. As opposed to Ptolemy, who understood astronomy as a purely mathematical tool in order to “save the phenomena” and allow for accurate predictions, Galileo – very much in line with Copernicus and Kepler, as well as Newton after him – supported the reality of the Copernican system not only against Aristotle and Ptolemy, but also against Tycho Brahe. And, as it turned out after 1616, against the Church itself, which, in full accord with Osiander’s unsigned preface to the De revolutionibus, refused to see in the Copernican theory anything more than a mere working hypothesis to which astronomers were allowed to appeal only for computations.
date: 2010
date_type: published
publication: Testo
volume: 31
number: 60
publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
pagerange: 17-27
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1123-4660
official_url: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli3.php?chiave=201005502&rivista=55&articolo=201005502002
citation:   Gattei, Stefano  "Per desiderio del vero e delle sue cause": Galileo astronomo filosofo.  Testo, 31 (60).  pp. 17-27.  ISSN 1123-4660      (2010)