The power of knowledge of the line in Galilei, Hobbes and Hooke

Abstract

Drawings, watercolors, copper engravings and etching can form extremely refined filigree constructions, arriving to the elaboration of a non-material mind, but which also allow the most direct possiblereproduction of the objects. This double visual position inspired three researchers of the 17th century, which were successful in view of the surface of the Moon (Galileo Galilei), the domain of the State (Thomas Hobbes) and the microscopic world (Robert Hooke). At least in these stellar explorers, the politician and the microbial separation between “thought and contemplation” dissolves in an intense symbiotic relationship.