Tuesday, September 27, 2022
![](http://blogs.shu.edu/honors/files/2014/03/Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei_1636_small.jpg)
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