Abstract

Barberini: You like to think in circles or ellipses and in uniform velocities, in simple motions commensurate with your minds. But what if God had been pleased to make His stars move like this? (He moves his finger through the air in a very complicated course with varying velocity) What would become of your calculations? Galileo: Your eminence, if God had created the world like this (He retraces Barberini's course) He would have constructed our minds like this too (He repeats the same course) to enable them to recognize these courses as the simplest. I believe in reason.1

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