The Life of Galileo Galilei, with Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy / Life of Kepler
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The text chronicles Galileo Galilei's life and scientific work while tracing the wider shift toward experimental philosophy. It emphasizes his insistence on observation, measurement, and controlled experiment as corrective to scholastic reasoning, outlines his mathematical and astronomical contributions including the application of optical instruments, and contrasts his methods with those of contemporaries such as Bacon. Biographical narrative is combined with analysis of method, descriptions of instruments and discoveries, and discussion of contemporary reception, together illustrating the practical development and influence of inductive, experiment-based natural philosophy.
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