In the canon
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1632
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 500
Go below decks on a great ship, Galileo tells you, and take a friend, some butterflies and a bowl of fish. Let the ship run smooth and fast, and nothing in that closed cabin will tell you that you are moving: the butterflies drift and the fish swim exactly as they did in harbour.
Aristarchus and Copernicus were able to make reason so conquer sense that, in defiance of the latter, the former became mistress of their belief.
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