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science as mathematics
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astronomy
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philosophy of science
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history of science
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science as experiment
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physics
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metaphysics and epistemology
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sense perception
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naming
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people better than computers

Reference

Galilei, G., The Assayer, Rome, Italy, 1623. Google

Other Reference

p. 151-336 in Galilei, G., Grassi, H., Guiducci, M., Kepler, J., The Controversy of the Comets of 1618, translated by Drake, S., and O'Malley, C.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960,

Quotations
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211 ;;Quote: Galileo's perfection of the telescope from news that it was possible
297 ;;Quote: experience is primary over testimony; if others had seen the experiment, they would change their mind
309 ;;Quote: size, shape, place, adjacency, quantity, and speed are fundamental properties of material substance
309+;;Quote: tastes, odors, colors are mere names as far material objects are concerned; they are only excitations of living animals; same as tickling and armpits
311 ;;Quote: taste and smell determined by the size, shape, quantity, and speed of minute particles; either fall to the tongue or rise to the nose
311 ;;Quote: sound is the vibration of the air moving the cartilages of the tympanum; waves are rapidly propagated from trembling bodies; frequent waves have high pitch, rare waves low pitch
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326 ;;Quote: objects at all distances increase at the same ratio, whether seen through a telescope or not; e.g., consider rods at varying distances and sizes whose ends line up
347 ;;Quote: the head of a comet is like a conglobate nebula; its beard is an effluvium from the head, expelled through the rays of the sun; the tail represents the death of the head

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