id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_eyjv3673vjdb5cdjsgdcrtciv4 Maarten Van Dyck The Paradox of Conceptual Novelty and Galileo's Use of Experiments 2005 20 .pdf application/pdf 5146 313 56 The Paradox of Conceptual Novelty and Galileo's Use of Experiments Galileo's experiments constitute an essential part of the meaning of the new concepts of Galileo's science at the same time was continuous with a preclassical conceptual The results achieved by Galileo implicitly define a new conceptual structure. problems, although defined in terms of the given conceptual apparatus, forced Galileo to conceptual apparatus – by considering the fall of bodies in a void, a limit situation in which the speed of a falling body is proportional with the difference between its specific gravity and Galileo doesn't stop with the claim that in vacuum all bodies would fall with the same speeds. discussions on conceptual novelty: Galileo has experimentally secured the reference of his 4. Galileo's Experiments and Conceptual Novelty. Both Galileo's experiments leading up to the extrapolation to the situation of fall in a void ./cache/work_eyjv3673vjdb5cdjsgdcrtciv4.pdf ./txt/work_eyjv3673vjdb5cdjsgdcrtciv4.txt