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Quote: a mathematical scientist must deduct material hindrances just as a merchant computer must discount the boxes from the weight of sugar
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[Salviati:] Just as the computer who wants his … so the mathematical scientist (filosofo geometra), when he … deduct the material hindrances, and if he is … computations. The errors, then, lie not in the … how to make a true accounting. Hence if … have no doubt that they touched in one … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: the results of mathematical science can agree with reality as accurately as do commercial calculations Quote: a perfect, material sphere and a perfect, material plane would touch in just one point in the same way that a mathematical plane touches a mathematical sphere
Topic: history of science (52 items)
Topic: science as measurement (36 items)
Topic: science as experiment (38 items)
Topic: science as mathematics (26 items)