The greatest scientific polemic ever: the Diologo, 1632 (6/8)

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• Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS
• Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:30
• CMS MR 14, Monday 12 November 4 pm.

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Possibly the most brilliant and devastating polemic ever written on the side of science, the Diologo simply destroys classical Renaissance Aristotelian physics, argues (hopelessly badly) for a similarity between cosmic and terrestrial physics and does not discover linear inertia (sorry), but what is effectively circular inertia, which is just Aristotelian natural motion. More interesting, more than a couple of decades research into kinematics of motion is not mentioned in the book. There is much to be discussed here!

This talk is part of the Galileo, his life and times (history of science for mathmos) series.

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