Detailed Information on Publication Record
2015
Precise Weighing of the Gold of Truth : New Rules of Scientific Languages as Proposed in Galileo's Assayer
LEDVOŇOVÁ, MarkétaBasic information
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
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/15:00084192
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
Galileo Galilei; Assayer; scientific language; science communication
Změněno: 22/2/2016 13:59, Mgr. Marie Skřivanová
Abstract
V originále
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.
Links
| MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MU |
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