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| Accesso online: | versione digitale |
| Autore principale: | Denis, Gilles.
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| Titolo: | The optical Galilean interpretation of the antique Theophrastian model for plant diseases / Gilles Denis. |
| Abstract: | When Galileo suggested in his Problema an explanation of the damage caused to plants exposed to weather, he applied the guidelines he had defined to the study of local motion change: establishment of a geometrical model representing the facts observed. He opted for the optics burning sphere model. Usually, this damage was essentially understood in terms of Theophrastus' explanation of erusibe according to the Aristotelian theory of decomposition. Galileo's text written about 1638 but published in 1718, was the first of a series of 18th century works approaching the explanation of plant diseases inspired from optics; following Galileo's model or suggesting another similar one, such as Hales' and Huet's works, or opposing it but with optic arguments, such as Adanson's or Fontana's works. When Galileo conceived his models, his natural philosophy had come to maturity and the Aristotelian approach was strongly challenged in relation to local motion. But the changes concerning living things remained broadly studied according to Aristotle. When Problema is published, aristotelianism was also declining for these changes. This was after Cartesian mechanism and the use of chemistry had started developing for studying living things. The optics approach for the plant disease model ended by being marginalized, being too simple to explain the relationships between plants and climatic circumstances. Then, this study helps us understand how unification between sky and earth, worked by the New Philosophy, failed to unify living and non-living things |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Galilaeana A. 8 (2011), p. 183-204 |
| Discipline: | Botanica--Studi specifici. Ottica--Studi. |
| Persone: | Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Scienze della vita. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. Secolo XVIII. |
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