Galileo à l'arsenal de Venise :

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Galileo à l'arsenal de Venise :

Galileo and the Challenge of the Arsenal

Letture Galileiane,

Florence, 21 March 2001.

Jürgen Renn and Matteo Valleriani, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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Brunelleschi, Contarini, and Galileo formed part of a class of administrators-engineers-scientists whose social role had emerged in the rising cities since the late Middle Ages, along with the knowledge resources at their disposal. As a matter of fact, a conspicuous technical, administrative, and logistic know-how had been accumulated over generations in the ever more powerful governments of independent cities such as Venice and Florence. The great ventures of the Renaissance and the early modern period thus brought about, at the same time, new practical knowledge as well as a new type of intellectual, who, in the realization of these ventures, drew on all bodies of knowledge available to them.

Ainsi émergeait une nouvelle catégorie-clé dans l'histoire des sciences et techniques : les ingénieurs.