- Hardcover: 369 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (Mar 1 1981)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9027712166
- ISBN-13: 978-9027712165
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The folly of the continuity thesis, July 27 2009
By Viktor Blasjo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought (Hardcover)
This book is a simpleminded defence of the continuity thesis. Wallace's attempt to establish a continuity is restricted to Galileo's early notebooks, which were related to his teaching. Therefore, at best, this establishes a continuity between medieval science and Galileo's *teaching,* not Galileo's *actual science.* This form of the "continuity thesis" (the only form defended here) is the most banal truism imaginable. What else was he supposed to teach? Of course he did not have his own theory at this early stage. So of course he had to rely on various authorities. Nowhere is there any argument that this has the slightest relevance for understanding Galileo's mature science. Instead Wallace spends all his time on various baroque linguistic analyses intended to show that in the notebooks Galileo was plagiarising one mediocre and irrelevant author rather than another.
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