Matjaž Vesel / Galileo Galilei, 'necessary demonstrations' and the Moon like another Earth

Abstract

The lecture was devoted to the relation of Galileo Galilei and the previous Aristotelean tradition. The lecturer touched upon methodological problems connected with the emergence of the so-called new science in the context of early modern thought.

Keywords

• Galilei, Galileo
• Aristotelism
• history of astronomy
• early modern thought