Galileo's background as an engineer (1)

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• Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS
• Monday 08 October 2018, 16:00-17:30
• CMS MR 14, Monday 8 October 4 pm.

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I will talk about renaissance humanism and new engineering ambitions in the renaissance, from Brunelleschi, Daniele, the Theatres of Machines to Tartaglia: this is the rise of a new kind of socially ambitious, epistemically ambitious Archimidean mathematical engineer.

This talk is part of the Galileo, his life and times (history of science for mathmos) series.

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