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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa when Galileo was a student there, Borri was a fierce advocate of Aristotelianism. He considered Aristotle as “the true guide for philosophers” and maintained that “the whole posterity learnt more, and in a easier, better and sooner way, from him alone than from all antecedents” (De motu gravium et levium, 1575, Preface).
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Camerota, M. (2022). Borri, Girolamo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_1124
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