Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
ISBN:
9788817023368 (8817023361)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli
Pages no: 907
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Science,
Physics,
Philosophy,
Astronomy,
Banned Books,
Italian Literature,
Mathematics
[A pleasant Venetian villa; through the open window, we see tourists photographing each other with their iPads while gondolas traverse a canal in the background. SALVIATI effusively greets his guests, SAGREDO and SIMPLICIO]SALVIATI: Welcome, dear friends, and many thanks for answering my urgent conv...
According to Socrates Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason , and that is what Galileo " tried " to do with Simplicio , he ( Galileo ) worked exactly like Socrates ( and his mother before him ) as a midwife , and tried to give birth to Simplicio`s reason in ti...
According to Socrates Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason , and that is what Galileo " tried " to do with Simplicio , he ( Galileo ) worked exactly like Socrates ( and his mother before him ) as a midwife , and tried to give birth to Simplicio`s reason in ti...
Salviati, Sagredo and Simplicio serve as Galileo’s vehicles to discuss the conflict between the Ptolemic/ Aristotelian universe and the Copernican. Separated into discussions over four days, Salviati is Galileo’s proxy as he disassembles Simplicio’s geocentrism to win over the undecided Sagredo. Th...
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