Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Galileo Galilei, portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1636

Read before class:

• Bacon, Novum Organum, The Advancement of Learning (CP 24); (Readings in Epistemology, hereafter RE, 3-10)
• Galileo, The Assayer, Letter to Grand Duchess Christina (ICCW 786-799)
• Bellarmine, “Letter on Galileo’s Theories” (CP 25-26)
• Newton, Principia, (ICCW 849-852)

First Paper Due