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One of the most famous scholars of his own time, Galileo Galilei made many contributions to astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, and philosophy, publishing widely and displaying a firm grasp of various Renaissance genres. Galileo aimed to advance mathematics as the discipline best suited to understanding nature and was part of the movement to revive Archimedean mathematics. His telescopic discoveries provided a new impulse to Copernicanism and the debate on heliocentrism. After the trial of 1633, in which the Catholic Church found him guilty of the vehement suspicion of heresy, Galileo published one more work on the sciences of materials and motion.
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Post, A.L. (2022). Galilei, Galileo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_920
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