A Patchwork of Passages

In the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Galileo states that he has a more authoritative book than those of Aristotle, one which is capable of representing a unified theory of nature; he calls it the alphabet. Galileo’s metaphor of the alphabet is adapted from Lucretius’ De rerum natur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter Kelly, PK
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2020-06-01
Series:Ciceroniana On Line
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/4675