Galileo's thought and its relationship with Philosophy and Ancient Science.
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Observation, Demonstration, Experimental method, Galileo, ancient scienceAbstract
In a letter dated January 2, 1638, four years before the date of his death (January 8, 1642) Galileo Galilei - the great investigator of nature and founder of modern science, whose third centenary we celebrate in this year 1942 - communicated to his friend Elia Diodati the unfortunate news of his complete blindness, which would prevent him from any further realization of his admirable inquiries and observations of natural facts. ''Galileo, your friend, has become completely blind, so that that heaven, that world, that universe which I by my marvelous observations and clear demonstrations had enlarged by a hundred and a thousand times more than commonly believed, is now diminished and restricted for me to the point of reaching nothing but my person''. The glory that the old contemplator of the sky, now rendered impotent, attributed to himself was neither vain boasting nor senile satisfaction, as Henry Martin considered it in his book on Galileo, but a firm awareness of the significance and transcendence of his celestial discoveries.
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Rodolfo Mandolfo, Universidad de Bolognia
He was born on August 20, 1877 in Senigallia. He emigrated to Argentina and taught at the universities of Cordoba and Tucuman. Author of a very extensive work, published in Italian and Spanish, among which are translations, original essays and historiographical studies. One of the most interesting aspects of his work are his studies on ancient philosophy, Renaissance philosophy and Marxist philosophy. According to Mondolfo, the specificity of philosophy is its problematic character, not its systematic character. Likewise, he does not admit that the history of philosophy follows a certain line or conforms to precise laws, but that it possesses a necessarily 'irregular' structure. Such ideas have been applied with obvious profit to Mondolfo's various historical studies. One of his most significant contributions was to complete Edward Zeller's important history of Greek philosophy, in a remarkable edition. Rodolfo Mondolfo died on July 15, 1976 in Buenos Aires.
Reference
Moreno V., Ramirez M., E., De La Oliva, C., Moreno E., et al. E., De La Oliva, C., Moreno E. and others (2022). Rodolfo Mondolfo's biography. https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/1213/RodolfoRodolfo
References
(1) Carta a Elia Diodati, 2 de enero de 1638.
(2) H. MARTIN, Galileo, les Droits de la Science et la Méthode des Sciences Physiques. París, 1868.
(3) NICOLA ANTONIO STELLIOLA: II Telescopio o Ver Ispecillo Celeste (Napoli, 1627).
(4) Carta a la Gran Duquesa Madre, madama CRISTINA DE LOREN A, en Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, edizione nazionale (1890-1907, en veinte tomos). T. V, 309-348.
(5) Cfr. en el diálogo sobre I Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo (Opere), ed. nación., VII, págs. 126 y 131).
(6) Liard, Descartes, París, 1903, el capítulo: Du róle de l'experience dans la Physique Cartesienne, y cfr. también Principes, IV, art. 204 y 205 y otros pasajes citados por Liard.
(7) II Baggiatore (Opere, VI, 262 y sigts.). Cfr. las citas en la obra de A. PASTORE, II problema della causalitá, (Torino, 1921), Vol. I, pág. 120.
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