Question: where in Krisis does Husserl indicate that he was aware that Galileo was looking through a spyclass at Venus and Jupiter and not through a Keplerian-style inverting refractor telescope? My copy and the English translation are packed away in a box until that day when I again have some office space ...
Fernglas?
Teleskop?
The former was of particular value to artillery officers prior to the calculus; see Galileo and the geometry of canon shots for best distance; see Husserl's naive stance on war during the early years of WWI (cp: B. Russell, same period)
See the use of optical transit with howitzer altititude and azimuth positioning through both Korea and Vietnam.
Transit and land surveying versus the forester's compass for the German managed woodlot: example, Marburg Lahntal opposite the old university in der naehe von Cappel.
Compare: GPS and digital alt-az encoders.
Google books Krisis
Google books Crisis
Historical note: Kepler's "observations" are not chiefly with a telescope. Cf: later use of "zenith telescope" and the last precision US Navy zenith telescope and its reliance on mechanics for its optical precision.
vide perspicillum
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Galileo's Starry Messenger in Curl web-content markup
Over at http://phil.aule-browser.com/ there is now a text of Galileo's Starry Messenger complete with marginal glosses.
The page requires the Curl plugin for your browser, which is available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte.
Galileo's text, also known as Sidereal Messenger or Sidereus Nuncius, recounts his construction of his telescope, his noting the surface of the moon, some nebula as themselves stars, the Milky Way as stars and the 4 great satellites of Jupiter.
I was able to find two other text versions on the internet, but both had deficiencies.
The marginal glosses had disrupted the OCR scan of the PDF images: they were restored manually using a custom Curl text procedure. Documentation on these can be found at the Curl site of Cambridge, MA. Curl Corporation, a subsdiary of Sumisho or by visiting an SCS web site.
Each marginal gloss is wrapped simply in {gloss } and placed before the text, itself wrapped in {para }.
Here is the gloss definition used at this time:
My versions of Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition on Galileo and his telescope can be found at http://phil.aule-browser.com/
Mention of a telescope is in Eugen Fink's Conversations with Husserl. For Husserl on Galileo, see his Krisis. For Heidegger on science and the instrument makers, see his Technik lecture. For excellent telescopes at fair prices, see http://www.astronomics.com/
The page requires the Curl plugin for your browser, which is available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte.
Galileo's text, also known as Sidereal Messenger or Sidereus Nuncius, recounts his construction of his telescope, his noting the surface of the moon, some nebula as themselves stars, the Milky Way as stars and the 4 great satellites of Jupiter.
I was able to find two other text versions on the internet, but both had deficiencies.
The marginal glosses had disrupted the OCR scan of the PDF images: they were restored manually using a custom Curl text procedure. Documentation on these can be found at the Curl site of Cambridge, MA. Curl Corporation, a subsdiary of Sumisho or by visiting an SCS web site.
Each marginal gloss is wrapped simply in {gloss } and placed before the text, itself wrapped in {para }.
Here is the gloss definition used at this time:
{define-text-proc public {gloss ...}:anywhich is found in the top-level curl file which includes the Galileo text as an scurl file. A reference to the top-level Curl file is embedded as an OBJECT in a regular HTM page at http://phil.aule-browser.com/messenger.htm
{return {paragraph font-size = 12pt,
font-family = "serif",
paragraph-left-indent = 8pt,
text-preserve-whitespace? = true, {italic {splice ...}}}}
}
My versions of Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition on Galileo and his telescope can be found at http://phil.aule-browser.com/
Mention of a telescope is in Eugen Fink's Conversations with Husserl. For Husserl on Galileo, see his Krisis. For Heidegger on science and the instrument makers, see his Technik lecture. For excellent telescopes at fair prices, see http://www.astronomics.com/
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