Work
The Assayer
Overview
The Assayer (Italian: Il saggiatore) is a book by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October 1623. It is generally considered to be one of the pioneering works of the scientific method, first broaching the idea that the book of nature is to be read with mathematical tools rather than those of scholastic philosophy, as generally held at the time. Despite the retroactive acclaim given to Galileo’s theory of knowledge, the empirical claim conjectured in the book — that comets and their observed properties are the product of optical phenomena — is incorrect.
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Related ideas
- Philosophy
- Moon
- Physics
- Rome
- Sun
- Scientific method
- Solar System
- Galileo Galilei
- Natural philosophy
- Earth
- Roman College
- Book of Nature
- Copernican heliocentrism
Place in the tradition
Part of Atomism.