Quote: Descartes misunderstood Galileo's 'Two New Sciences'

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[Descartes to Mersenne October 1638, translated by Drake:] I shall commence this letter by my … [Two New Sciences]. … he seems to me very faulty in continually … examined things in order, and that without having … and thus he has built without foundation. … [p. 389] His experiment to know if light is … made of them, prove this incomparably better than … He considers a straight line described by the … [line] is composed of infinity of actual points, which is pure … [p. 390] His way of weighing air is not … this. … [p. 390] His two ways of describing parabolas are … [p. 392] What Galileo says that falling bodies pass … is not impossible that it sometimes happens.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Galileo only sought the reasons for some particular effects. He built without foundation from the first causes of nature

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