Galileo, now famous, returns to Florence, fails to persuade natural philosophers (5/8)

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• Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS
• Monday 05 November 2018, 16:00-17:30
• CMS MR 14, Monday 5 November 4 pm.

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His observations with the telescope catapulted Galileo from being an obscure engineer to the world’s foremost defender of a new natural philosophical claim: the large-scale structure of the universe. Yes, the Church scowled a little, but the real problems were that (a) he wasn’t a natural philosopher, (b) he has no natural philosophical justification for heliocentricity, and© he did not have an academic position as a natural philosopher. Moving to the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany didn’t really help.

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

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