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work_rp4jwa3j5jbvjdazloh2c26l4a	Mario Biagioli	The anthropology of incommensurability	1990	28	.pdf	application/pdf	13270	860	55	buoyancy, Galileo claimed that his Aristotelian interlocutors did not understand his Archimedean treatment of buoyancy because they were mathematically illiterate. Aristotelian philosophers during the dispute on buoyancy was also precipitated by the disciplinary hierarchy subordinating mathematics to philosophy on Bodies in Water one is puzzled by the philosophers' quantitatively overwhelming and amazingly repetitive refutations of Galileo's thesis. In order to understand the link between the specifically linguistic phenomenon of incommensurability and the processes through which socio-professional In short, both the Copemican hypothesis and Galileo's mathematical treatment of buoyancy represented instances of the mathematicians' invasion of the opponent of Galileo's the Florentine philosopher Lodovico delle Colombe.33 The newcomer was able to produce an experiment which seemed to In the Discourse Galileo announced a "discovery" that turned Delle Colombe's anomaly into a confirmation of the Archimedean theory of buoyancy. symbiotic relation between Galileo's mathematical theory of buoyancy and his The incommensurability between Galileo and the philosophers was not 	./cache/work_rp4jwa3j5jbvjdazloh2c26l4a.pdf	./txt/work_rp4jwa3j5jbvjdazloh2c26l4a.txt