Galileo’s defense of the application of geometry to physics in the Dialogue.

Abstract: Alessandro Piccolomini and several other prominent 16th-century Aristotelians claimed that while a sphere touches a plane at a point in geometry, a material sphere touches a plane not at a point but over a small surface. These thinkers thereby called into question the reliability of geomet...

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Publicado en:	Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 178 - 188
Autor principal:	Marshall, Douglas Bertrand
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Elsevier B.V. Jun2013
Materias:	Dialogue Piccolomini, Alessandro Sixteenth century Aristotelianism (Philosophy) Surfaces (Philosophy) Reliability (Personality trait) Physics Geometry Application software
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