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A Curious Survival

Nature volume 115, page 678 (1925)Cite this article

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IN the days of Galileo, medieval objections to experimental evidence and direct observation were prevalent. Jupiter's satellites, for example, were regarded as trivial deceptive appearances, not worth the trouble of looking at; and one argument against their reality was that they would be useless, and therefore could not exist.

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LODGE, O. A Curious Survival. Nature 115, 678 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115678d0

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