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SUMMARY:Galileo\, now famous\, returns to Florence\, fails to persuade nat
 ural philosophers (5/8) - Piers Bursill-Hall\, DPMMS
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CONTACT:piers bursill-hall
DESCRIPTION:His observations with the telescope catapulted Galileo from be
 ing an obscure engineer to the world's foremost defender of a new natural 
 philosophical claim: the large-scale structure of the universe. Yes\, the 
 Church scowled a little\, but the real problems were that (a) he wasn't a 
 natural philosopher\, (b) he has no natural philosophical justification fo
 r heliocentricity\, and (c) he did not have an academic position as a natu
 ral philosopher. Moving to the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany didn't r
 eally help.
LOCATION:CMS MR 14\, Monday 5 November 4 pm
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