Galileo Galilei, The Assayer

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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.






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Stenger on Galileo's Trial - Telic Thoughts
Before moving on to consider the other aspects of the Assayer, it is illuminating to compare Galileo's situation at this time?and hence?with that of John Wilkins in England. A vociferous defender of Copernicanism, he faced little ...
Galileo Galilei
Galileo duly kept away from writing on cosmological matters, concentrating instead, on applying his discovery of Jupiter's satellites for determining longitude at sea. In 1623 he wrote the Assayer, published by the Academy of the Lynxes ...
DNA: Happy Anniversary « ?thorns compose?
(Galileo Galilei, The Assayer: Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo,trans. And ed. Stilman Drake. 237-8. In Alister McGrath, A Scientific Theology, 1:210). Problems did not emerge until the 19th century. It was then that two things ...
Galileo Galilei
Galileo settled on the ocean. Not so soon he observed the changing shadows on Jupiter's moons which tells sailors their longitude. Galileo felt encouraged by Maffeo Barberni and wrote 'The Assayer' which tells how people, the Assayer ...
GG Superstar! « The Renaissance Mathematicus
The use of the pop terminology ?superstar? is justified in this case because in this phase Galileo's fame rested on a set of observations with a new scientific instrument rather than any real scientific achievement and as such was more a ... Again, if he had died soon after and never written and published the Assayer, the Dialogo and the Discorsi (including that reworked paper on hydrostatics) his fame what have dimmed over the years and with it his status in the history ...


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