Book:Galileo Galilei/Il Saggiatore
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Galileo Galilei: Il Saggiatore
Published $\text {1623}$
In English:
- The Assayer
Subject Matter
Contents
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Historical Note
Despite having been forbidden to advocate the heliocentric view of the Solar System, Galileo perceived that the new Pope, Pope Urban VIII was more liberal-minded than his predecessor.
Consequently, he dedicated Il Saggiatore to Urban, with the famous statement:
- The Great Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.
Sources
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $8$: The System of the World: Galileo