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  • Galileo's paradox is a demonstration of one of the surprising properties of infinite sets. In his final scientific work, Two New Sciences, Galileo Galilei...
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  • List of paradoxes – List of statements that appear to contradict themselves Banach–Tarski paradox – Geometric theorem Galileo's paradox – Paradox in set...
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    but by the end of Galileo's life, it was being superseded by the algebraic methods of Descartes. The concept now named Galileo's paradox was not original...
    129 KB (15,779 words) - 08:34, 5 September 2024
  • the set of all sets would contain a subset greater than itself. Galileo's paradox: Though most numbers are not squares, there are no more numbers than...
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  • Aristotle's wheel paradox is a paradox or problem appearing in the pseudo-Aristotelian Greek work Mechanica. It states as follows: A wheel is depicted...
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  • interesting results in set theory. Bolzano expanded on the theme of Galileo's paradox, giving more examples of correspondences between the elements of an...
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    the view of Galileo (derived from Euclid) that the whole cannot be the same size as the part. (However, see Galileo's paradox where Galileo concludes that...
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  • N {\displaystyle \mathbb {N} } , the set of natural numbers. From Galileo's paradox, there exists a bijection that maps every natural number n to its...
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  • Sector (instrument) (category Galileo Galilei)
    The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei added further scales in the 1590s, and published a book on the subject in 1606. Galileo's sector was first designed...
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    Villa Il Gioiello (category Galileo Galilei)
    plaque placed in 1942. Galilei, Galileo at encyclopedia.com, section The Trial of Galileo Florence - Following in Galileo's tracks Archived May 6, 2015,...
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    Two New Sciences (category Books by Galileo Galilei)
    arguments are representative of Galileo's own early beliefs, as Sagredo represents his middle period, and Salviati proposes Galileo's newest models. The book...
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    The Galileo National Telescope, (Italian: Telescopio Nazionale Galileo; TNG; code: Z19) is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the Roque de los...
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    to refute some of Zeno's paradoxes. Other relevant examples of potential infinities include Galileo's paradox and the paradox of Hilbert's hotel. The notion...
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    Gradić on Galileo's paradox (in Croatian)" (PDF). Dubrovnik Annals. 30: 79–91. I. Martinović (1997). "Stjepan Gradić on Galileo's paradox of the bowl"...
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    Tribune of Galileo (Italian: Tribuna di Galileo) is a Neoclassic architectural addition, built to commemorate the famous Florentine scientist, Galileo Galilei...
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  • mathematics since 200 BC (Fibonacci gave the series in 1202 AD). Galileo's paradox: the property of infinite sets was known to Duns Scotus. Gauss's law:...
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    not be sufficient to coat its surface. However, this paradox is again only an apparent paradox caused by an incomplete definition of "paint", or by using...
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  • This article contains a discussion of paradoxes of set theory. As with most mathematical paradoxes, they generally reveal surprising and counter-intuitive...
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  • The paradox of a charge in a gravitational field is an apparent physical paradox in the context of general relativity. A charged particle at rest in a...
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    The mechanical paradox is an apparatus for studying physical paradoxes. It consists of a trapezoidal veneered wooden frame with two brass rails, and a...
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