MATHEMATICS, THE "BOOK OF NATURE" AND THEOLOGY - GALILEO GALILEI AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE
MATHEMATICS, THE "BOOK OF NATURE" AND THEOLOGY - GALILEO GALILEI AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE
Author(s): Ion CordoneanuSubject(s): Philosophy, Logic
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Galileo Galilei; Foundations of Modern Science; Copernican model; scientific knowledge;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the cycle of letters known as The Copernican Letters (1613-1615) and following through tothe 1632 Dialogue, I will attempt to outline the context in which Galileo Galilei’s work is constituted as averitable theory of nature research based on mathematics. Galilei rests on the principles of science toground his choice for the Copernican model, as well as the separation of natural research from theology,but his concern for a unified philosophy of the natural world is intertwined in his work with the dignity ofcreation understood as “the great book of the world” by which divinity talks to man in the language ofmathematics.
- Issue Year: 5/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 32-36
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English