Can you give highlights for those of us with short attention spans?
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Viktor, do you have anything written on this (even transcripts)? The gist, apparently, is: looking at primary sources (which I haven't done) shows that Galileo was very weak as a mathematician, unable to calculate, and correspondence shows others gave him his best ideas. E.g, ...
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In his book "Remarkable Curves" A.I. Markushevich, in the chapter about the catenary, quotes a "method of drawing a parabola", allegedly due to Galileo. The "method was to hang a chain on a wall by its ends...
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Indeed Galileo proposed this erroneous way of drawing "parabolas". His notesheets with the needle holes still in them are preserved to this day. Here's one: http://www.imss.fi.it/ms72/HTML/F107_R/M107_R.HTM …
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Are you weighing the evidence correctly?
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Quite rightly, too
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