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noobermin on July 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (2011)

I think you're calling Aristotelian physics "Galilean mechanics."

jivardo_nucci on July 5, 2015 [–]

You're right, my bad! I should have said "Aristotelian mechanics" instead of "Galilean mechanics". Galileo saw his physical intuitions but, being the scientist he was, corrected them.

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