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Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble
By
Isabelle Stengers;
Isabelle Stengers
Isabelle Stengers is Emerita Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and is the author of numerous books, including
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-2727-0
Publication date:
2023
Book Chapter
The First Experimental Apparatus?
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Published:September 2023
The appendix describes an apparatus set up by Galileo in 1608 to measure velocity, a necessary step in proving that the Earth is in motion, rotating on its own axis while circling the Sun. Stengers explores how what was “perhaps the first experimental demonstration” worked, and she argues that Galileo would not have been able to invent it if he hadn't already imagined the answer he was seeking.
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