QuoteQuest“This [experimentation] is the custom—and properly so—in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.”
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- Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
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Salviati, Third Day. Change of Position
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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
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