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Galileus Deceptus, Non Minime Decepit: A Re-Appraisal of a Counter-Argument in Dialogo to the Extrusion Effect of a Rotating Earth (2008)

Palmieri, Paolo (Author)

Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume: 39
Pages: 425--452
Publication date: 2008
Language: English

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Earth (planet) Mathematical physics Physics Celestial mechanics Renaissance 17th century Galilei, Galileo

In this paper, I will re-examine Galileo's counter-argument to the extrusion effect in the context of his understanding of the angle of contingence, a dimension of Galileo's reasoning that has so far been neglected in the debate. I will argue that it is precisely this dimension that further illuminates the counter-argument, thus resolving the apparently internal conflict in Galileo's physics, and that Hill's claim --- when viewed from the standpoint of Galileo's understanding of the angle of contingence --- becomes untenable. Galileo went wrong (by the lights of subsequent developments in mathematical physics), but he did not consciously deceive.

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