Essay Archive - Galileo and Newton
Galileo and Newton
Galileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all
material things have "this or that shape" and are small or large in relation to
other things. He also says that material objects are either in motion or at
rest, touching or not touching some other body, and are either one in number,
or many. The central properties of the material world are mathematical and
strengthened through experimentation. Galileo excludes the properties of tastes,
odors, colors, and so on when describing the material world. He states that
these properties "reside only in the conscio....
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