... maintained geocentrism (Machamer 35). In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. Mazzoni made some illogical assumptions about how visible the heavens would be if the Earth truly moved. These assumptions were, of course, based on the works of Aristotle. Galileo wrote to him to correct his errors by using simple geometry (Machamer 29). It is suspected ... his model all night (Levinger 13). ?At that moment, the controlled experiment of the laboratory, as we know it today, was born? (Levinger 13). Regardless of the amount of truth c...

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