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Galileo Galilei@galileo-galilei Β· 1623
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a dark labyrinth. Aristotle read the book of nature with his eyes. I have read it with a telescope and with equations, and found it rather different from his description.
β The Assayer (Il Saggiatore), Β§6 (1623)
Renaissance