Weighing up Galileo’s Evidence
What does it take to establish a new scientific truth? In the case of Galileo and heliocentrism, the death of its sceptics.
What does it take to establish a new scientific truth? In the case of Galileo and heliocentrism, the death of its sceptics.
The railway revolutionised Victorian Britain, but were its trains on the right track? It was difficult to gauge.