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| Accesso online: | versione digitale |
| Autore principale: | Ciancio, Luca.
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| Titolo: | An amphitheatre built on toothpicks : Galileo, Nardi and the hypothesis of central fire / Luca Ciancio. |
| Abstract: | During the final year of his life Galileo recommended to his correspondents mathematicians such as Renieri and Cavalieri, but also sophisticated laymen such as Micanzio and Rinuccini that they read Giovanni Nardi's De igne subterraneo (1641), a book he seems to have regarded as deserving scrutiny and discussion. After presenting Nardi's argument, the likely reasons for Galileo's interest are investigated with reference to the development of his ideas on the structure and phenomena of the terracqueous globe, culminating in the Third Day of the Dialogue (1632). This analysis has led us to rule out the notion that Galileo may have embraced the hypothesis of a constant fire active in the Earth's core. This episode, however, provides an opportunity to show that, although he did not develop anything like a new and coherent theory of the Earth, Galileo became aware that such a theory was among the necessary consequences of the Copernican cosmology and that it should be based on new ideas of matter and motion |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Galilaeana A. 15 (2018), p. 83-113 |
| Discipline: | Scienze della Terra--Persone. Astronomia--Persone. |
| Persone: | Nardi, Giovanni, 1585-1654. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Astronomia. Galilei, Galileo e Nardi, G. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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