Spigolature di tecnologia attinenti al Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo / Mario Otto Helbing.
Abstract:
The subject and the purpose of Galileo's Dialogue was at first cosmological and philosophical. Nevertheless, references to some engines appear in many passages of the work: to simple machines, to magneticneedles, to clocks..., and it is important to focus that Galileo privileged mechanical models to confirm the New Physics involved in the Copernican system. As some time ago Pierre Souffrin noticed, even giving his explanation of tides, Galileo speaks of a machine which simulates the tide phenomenon. The study of Galileo's earlier works and correspondence shows that Galileo designed this machine before 1616, probably inspired by Drebbel's perpetuum mobile.
Letture galileiane (2007 : Berlino) Galileo e le tecniche. p. 17-32