“Galileo’s reputation is more hyperbole than truth”

    Now here’s a strikingly revisionist article.   https://aeon.co/opinions/galileo-s-re...   According to this historian of science, Galileo was a very good scientist, but scarcely the world-transforming titan that he’s been made out to be.  (If he had to choose somebody for that role during the same era, it would be the German astronomer and mathematician [Read More...]