Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (or a Sidereal Message) History of Technology its herbarium to the Department

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The scientific revolution is frequently pictured as the triumph of the mechanical philosophy over the works of the Aristoltelians and other ancient philosophers

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Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (or a Sidereal Message) History of Technology its herbarium to the DepartmentTranslated from the Latin by William R. Shea, Introduction and notes by William R. Shea and Tiziana Bascelli. 2nd Printing, minor revisionsAugust 2012, 132pp., illus., paperback From the Preface: An instrument can change the world and compel us to rethink our place in the universe. The telescope did just this, but only when it was used by Galileo, whose eye was prepared to see new things and whose hand was able to depict what he saw. It was not only