DEFENDING COPERNICUS AND GALILEO: CRITICAL REASONING AND THE SHIP EXPERIMENT ARGUMENT

摘要

[...] because of the features of the Galilean model as I interpret it, I follow an approach that involves defending Galileo from his many critics while mindful of the power and importance of the many objections which they advance, and similarly criticizing the Church while appreciating the power and importance of the many proclerical arguments. [...] from the point of view of modern physics, the phenomenon does not happen exactly the way Galileo describes it; however, the deviations are so small that his description may be deemed correct as a first approximation, and the more exact description can be, and was historically, arrived at in part by following his own hints.