1612Discourse on Floating BodiesGalileo Galilei
Galileo publishes a discourse defending Archimedean hydrostatics against Aristotelian explanations of why bodies float or sink.
Historical records for Italy in 1612, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Galileo publishes a discourse defending Archimedean hydrostatics against Aristotelian explanations of why bodies float or sink.
Galileo also observed the planet Neptune in 1612, but did not realize that it was a planet
Previous sunspot observations had been misinterpreted as planetary transits, until Galileo gave the correct explanation in 1612
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