Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Opinionated History of Mathematics
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The Misunderstood History of Archimedes
Many people don't care for mathematics, they hardly even know that this work even exists. Archimedes says not the word about any experiment, not the word of empirical data. He only published the actual theory, not the obvious test to prove it. Galileo spent his whole life spelling out those parts that Archimedes told were too trivial to even mention.
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