LEDVOŇOVÁ, Markéta. Precise Weighing of the Gold of Truth : New Rules of Scientific Languages as Proposed in Galileo's Assayer. In Language of nature and language of science on the threshold of modern age, 1. 10. 2015, Plzeň. 2015.
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Original name Precise Weighing of the Gold of Truth : New Rules of Scientific Languages as Proposed in Galileo's Assayer
Authors LEDVOŇOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Language of nature and language of science on the threshold of modern age, 1. 10. 2015, Plzeň, 2015.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00084192
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English Galileo Galilei; Assayer; scientific language; science communication
Tags mzok, rivok
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Abstract
Treatise Il Saggiatore (The Assayer), the result of the conflict that arose between Galileo Galilei and the Jesuit Father Orazio Grassi, is not only a great example of a court dispute between two scientists. While questioning the Jesuit's moral qualities and scientific abilities, Medici's Court Mathematician also took occasion to present the new principles of scientific research held by Accademia dei Lincei. The presentation describes the new strategies of scientific communication adopted by Galileo, such as favouring the Italian language over Grassi's academic Latin. The presentation also deals with Galileo's emphasis on the importance of the clear, apposite and precise language, the impossibility of changing the truth with words and the necessity of cautiousness and doubt, as expressed in this unofficial manifest of a new way of thinking in the field of natural philosophy.
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MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MUName: Soudobé problémy a minulé podoby filozofické diskuse
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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