Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

["Dr. Keith S. Taber" <kst24@cam.ac.uk>]

At 07:02 -0400 23/9/10, Joseph Bellina wrote:
> In that sense Copernicus was a mystically driven reactionary failure.

But what a glorious failure.

And, post-positivism, isn't that what we are to aspire to? (cf. Popper)

Keith

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