Irony and Galileo's Relativity Principle

Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 46 (2):262-270 (1971)
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Ironically, in adopting Neo-Platonism over Aristotelianism, Galileo made significant advances concerning the general problem of motion but in doing so bracketed the crucial issue of gravity

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