22 Sempre foi difícil saber o que é conhecimento comentada em 26/10/2025 08:57 #PAS Paulo em 20/10/25 6:12 comentada em 26/10/2025 08:57 "Yet Galileo lived in a world where this Baconian method—the demonstration of truth through repeated experimentation—was still junior to received authority, still secondary to tradition. Forty years later, Galileo would write scathingly of a Venetian philosopher who attended a public dissection, carried out by a celebratedanatomist who intended to disprove Aristotle’s insistence that all nerves originated in the heart:The anatomist showed that the great trunk of nerves, leaving the brain and passing through the nape, extended on down the spine and then branched out through the whole body, and that only a single strand as fine as a thread arrived at the heart. Turning to [the philosopher], on whose account he had been exhibiting and demonstrating everything with unusual care, he asked this man whether he was at last satisfied and convinced that the nerves originated in the brain. . . . The philosopher, after considering for awhile, answered: 'You have made me see this matter so plainly and palpably that if Aristotle’s text were not contrary to it, stating clearly that the nerves originate in the heart, I should be forced to admit it to be true.'5Seeing was not yet believing."The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory