Galilée

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Galileo as the founder of scientific physics, who opens up the "physical continent" and gives physics its independence1. For him, this revolution does not lie primarily in heliocentrism, but in the discovery of inertia and of the relativity of motion: rest cannot be told apart from uniform rectilinear motion23. He stresses one of Galileo's demands: the telescope is not enough, one needs the equation that accounts for what is observed. On this point he cites The Assayer, where the book of nature is written in mathematical language4. The "Galilean break" and Galilean-Cartesian mechanism ruin ancient finalism and animism, though this does not make Aristotle an idiot5. He often comes back to Galileo's condemnation, which explains Descartes's caution, and to the "eppur si muove", which Clouscard takes up to speak of class struggle. He also recalls that Nazi scientists wanted to call his physics into question6.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015 · 45:49
2. 29 #17 La métaphore géopolitique • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani17 Mar 2021 · 27:33
3. 3L'Histoire est elle une matière ?9 Mar 2017 · 51:07
4. 4La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 41:29
5. 5#5.2 bis FaceBookLive / Questions (1)6 Dec 2018 · 17:45
6. 6Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 42:38

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