Engineering and mathematics in the late 16th century (2/8)

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• Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS
• Monday 15 October 2018, 16:00-17:30
• CMS MR 14, Monday 15 October 4 pm.

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As mathematicians (as distinct from those who taught classical Greek geometry, who usually were part of the philosophy teaching at Renaissance universities) were able to extend their Archimidean and practical geometry to more and more engineering, there ambitions were bolstered by an argument amongst natural philosophers that mathematics was the supreme empirical science. In the last decades of the 16th century and the first decade of the 17th century the distinctions between what we would call mathematics, physics, and engineering were becoming more blurred – which left ample room for new ideas to seep through the interstices. Enter Galileo. (2/8)

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

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