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The very existence of sunspots showed another difficulty with the notion of unchanging "perfection" of the heavens as assumed in the older philosophy. But the debate eventually eroded the disciplinary boundary between mathematics and philosophy. Monthly and annual variations of the tidal cycle can likewise be attributed to features of the Earth’s orbit that affect the alignment of the two motions.

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Rossi, Paolo, 1962, I Filosofi e le Macchine, Milan: Feltrinelli.

Roux, Sophie, and Daniel Garber (eds.), 2013, The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, New York: Springer.

Segre, Michael, 1991, In the Wake of Galileo, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

–––, 1998, “The Never-Ending Galileo Story,” in P.

Machamer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. Galileo published a full description in Sidereus Nunciusin March 1610.

On January 7, 1610, Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's four largest moons: Io, Europa, and Callisto. The experiments reported in Two New Sciences to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accurate measurements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the 1600s.

Then, in 1610 he used a telescope as a compound microscope and made improved microscopes in 1623 and after. In June 1633, Galileo was convicted of “vehement suspicion of heresy,” and a sentence of imprisonment was immediately commuted to perpetual house arrest. In January 1633, a very ill Galileo made an arduous journey to Rome.

In the book, Galileo is not concerned with the cosmographic arrangement and parameters of the planetary orbits, as Copernicus himself had been. ISBN 978-0471350668

Lessl, Thomas. Indeed, “Galilean Science” is often used as a synonym for modern scientific method.

One tradition of Galileo scholarship has divided Galileo’s work into three or four parts: (1) his physics, (2) his astronomy, and (3) his methodology, which might include his method of Biblical interpretation and/or his thoughts about the nature of proof or demonstration.

(Galilei 1967, 145)

Galileo is so confident that this account makes sense of the phenomenon, experimental confirmation is superfluous. There is, however, little doubt that both of them were beaten by David Fabricius and his son Johannes. In January of 1610 he discovered four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter—the planet’s four largest moons.

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Jardine, Nicholas, 1976, “Galileo’s Road to Truth and the Demonstrative Regress,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 7 (4): 277–318.

Kepler, Johannes, 1610, Dissertation cum Nuncio Sidereo, Prague; translated as Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger, E.

Rosen (trans.), New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965.

Koertge, Noretta, 1977, “Galileo and the Problem of Accidents.” Journal of the History of Ideas, 38 (3): 389–408.

Koyré, Alexandre, 1966, Études Galiléennes, Paris: Hermann; translated as Galileo Studies, J. Mepham (trans.), Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1978.

Lennox, James G., 1986, “Aristotle, Galileo and the ‘Mixed Sciences’,” in W.

A. Wallace (ed.), Reinterpreting Galileo, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, pp. Based on sketchy descriptions of telescopes invented in the Netherlands in 1608, Galileo made an instrument with about 8-power magnification and then made improved models up to about 20-power. Scholastic cosmology held that, whereas the terrestrial elemental world with its diversity of natures exhibited multitudinous change, the aethereal heavens at most placidly and eternally rotated in their places.

On the traditional view, natural philosophy concerned what was true in general, “always or for the most part” as Aristotle put it (Physics II.8), and one could not learn anything from particulars (Posterior Analytics I.31).