A Patchwork of Passages
In the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Galileo states that he has a more authoritative book than those of Aristotle, one which is capable of representing a unified theory of nature; he calls it the alphabet. Galileo’s metaphor of the alphabet is adapted from Lucretius’ De rerum natura...
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Ciceroniana On Line |
| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/4675 |