Galileo's Discorsi and Mersenne's Nouvelles Pensées: Mersenne as a Reader of Galilean “Experience” (2008)
This study examines Marin Mersennes 1639 Nouvelles Pensees de Galilee, a translation and adaptation of Galileo Galilei's 1638 Discorsi. I use the translation as a window into how Mersenne, a reader trained in natural philosophy, read and understood GalileoÌœs text and, in particular, GalileoÌœs use of experience to support his claims. This analysis reveals that Mersenne drew on a variety of techniques and conceptions of experience in rendering GalileoÌœs individual accounts of experience and experiment. The differences in the way the two authors relate discourse and experience is shown to be linked to their choices of genre and the varying motivations each brought to their texts.
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