The Specter of the Telescope
The Specter of the Telescope
Radical Instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
This chapter examines history of the telescope and the radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Robert Hooke. It suggests that the naturalization and depersonalization of naked eye observation is the complement of the mathematization of the instrument and its objects. It also describes how Hooke legitimized radical instrumentalism with the notion of the instrument as a mathematical extension of reason that enables the observer to read “the language of mathematics”.
Keywords: telescope, radical instrumentalism, galileo, robert hooke, naked eye, mathematization, mathematical extension, reason, language of mathematics
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