Galileos cultural context and the agents involved in the legitimization of his professional role as a philosopher-mathematician

Abstract

Galileo’s studies have been recognized for many historians for his geometrization of the behavior of physical bodies in mechanical systems. However, we believe this process was not restricted to exclusive discussions of Natural philosophy scope about the validity of its relation with the geometry, but, had the influence of agents and social dynamics, here we find a political Galileo that intervened in social places like the Italian Real Court and the Collegio Romano. So, this article aims to analyze the relations established by Galileo with these social agents that intervened and enacted the legitimacy of mathematics in the natural philosophy studies.