Il Saggiatore
by Galileo Galilei · first published 1992
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I found this by poking around on the ystrickler.com site and was happy to find someone else who thinks about thinking and had actually read Il Saggiatore (The Assayer). I read it with something completely different in mind, and would recommend it (The Assayer) as one of the beginnings of a social discussion on the nature of science, but would caution…
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