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Three main features of engineering thought have formed over the centuries: artistic, practical (or technical), and scientific. In the Renaissance time the relation between art and nature to each other were interpreted in three different ways. Galileo criticized the craftsmen’s approach to technical activity that overlooked scientific knowledge and laws of physics in building machinery that would be impossible without them. He created more than a model of experimental activity; he demonstrated how to develop scientific knowledge so that it could be used for technical purposes. That is why “technoscience” is an appropriate name for Galileo’s new science.
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This study is part of a largely research supported by the project “From Galileo’s Technoscience to the Nanotechnoscience (Philosopical and Methodological Analysis)”, Nr. 13-03-00190, of the Russian Foundation for Humanities.
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Gorokhov, V. (2015). Galileo’s “Technoscience”. In: Pisano, R. (eds) A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9645-3_12
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