Re:The Earth is Flat
by klez on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:40AM
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Here's a translation of the Saggiatore at the beginning, for those who are curious and don't trust machine translation.
> Philosophy is written in this huge book that is always opened in front of us (which I call the Universe), but you can't understand it if first you don't learn the language and characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it's impossible to understand a single word; without them all you can do is wander around an obscure labyrinth.
> Philosophy is written in this huge book that is always opened in front of us (which I call the Universe), but you can't understand it if first you don't learn the language and characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it's impossible to understand a single word; without them all you can do is wander around an obscure labyrinth.