1623 in philosophy
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1623 in philosophy
Events
- Galileo Galilei lays down the foundations of the scientific method.Drake, p. 139
{{quote|Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics and its characters are triangles and 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.|GalileoThe Assayer, p. 4}}
Publications
- Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623)Arnǎutu, p. 79
- Galileo Galilei, The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) (1623)McClellan & Dorn, p. 229
- Patrick Scot, The Tillage of Light (1623)Debus, p. 255
Births
- May 26 - William Petty (died 1687)
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal (died 1662)
Deaths
- 16 November - Francisco Sanches (born 1550)
References
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Bibliography
- Arnǎutu, Robert R. A., Early Modern Philosophy of Technology: Bacon and Descartes, Zeta Books, 2017 {{ISBN|6066970364}}.
- Debus, Allen G., The Chemical Philosophy, Courier Corporation, 2013 {{ISBN|0486150216}}.
- Drake, Stillman, Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto Press, 1999 {{ISBN|0802075851}}.
- Galileo Galilei, (trans: Stillman Drake), [https://web.stanford.edu/~jsabol/certainty/readings/Galileo-Assayer.pdf The Assayer], 1623
- McClellan, James Edward; Dorn, Harold, Science and Technology in World History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 {{ISBN|0801883598}}.