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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei

“he has established a new science dealing with a very old subject”

Galileo Galilei (spoken by Sagredo)

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Third Day, closing exchange, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)

Sagredo's tribute to the Academician after the propositions on accelerated motion, wondering that Archimedes, Apollonius and Euclid missed the subject.

Citation: "he has established a new science dealing with a very old subject" — Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Third Day, closing exchange, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914). (id galileo-two-new-sciences-q9)

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