More things Galileo didn’t do first
What was Galileo’s great innovation in science? To give practical experience more authority than philosophical systems? To insist on mechanical as opposed to teleological or supernatural explanations of natural phenomena?
Opinionated History of Mathematics
October 28, 201953m 28s
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What was Galileo’s great innovation in science? To give practical experience more authority than philosophical systems? To insist on mechanical as opposed to teleological or supernatural explanations of natural phenomena? To take mathematical physics as our best window into the fundamental nature of reality as opposed to just a computational tool for a small set … <a href="https://intellectualmathematics.com/blog/more-things-galileo-didnt-do-first/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">More things Galileo didn’t do first</span></a>