Galileo at work his scientific biography

          This fascinating, scholarly study by one of the world's foremost authorities on Galileo offers a vivid portrait of one of history's greatest minds..

          Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography

          February 17, 2016
          "Ptolemy was in fact the first great scientific cosmographer, writing on both geography and astronomy.

          He began the Almagest by remarking that Aristotle had divided theoretics into three classes: physical, mathematical, and theological (or metaphysical).

          Galileo at work: his scientific biography.

        1. Galileo at work: his scientific biography.
        2. Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography.
        3. This fascinating, scholarly study by one of the world's foremost authorities on Galileo offers a vivid portrait of one of history's greatest minds.
        4. Since publication of Stillman Drake's landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this.
        5. ABSTRACT: The general space-time composition was analyzed starting in ancient times.

          6. No agreement was to be hoped for among philosophers, he said, in the first and third of these, for the ultimate nature of matter is hidden from us and metaphysics is amenable only to thought or conjecture. In the mathematical theory of the heavens, on the other hand, agreement can be reached by proceeding from appearances to hypotheses and thence to geometric and arithmetic demonstrations based thereon.

          But Ptolemy did not extend these remarks beyond the realm of astronomy, and if others had done so for physics, or even for the specific science of motion (as Galileo was destined to do), I have not run across an example.

          ..." - pg 53

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