Philosophy 167: Class 7 - Part 9 - Galileo's Tables in Practice: Calibration, and the Problematic Relationship Between Theory and Experiment.
Smith, George E. (George Edwin), 1938-
2014-10-14
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Synopsis: About the difficulties in verifying theoretical results when you cannot duplicate the theoretical conditions--specifically, ballistic trajectories in the absence of air resistance.
Opening line: "Now the deep point about this. You're gonna calibrate it how?"