... Galileo is completely and frighteningly contemporary in philosophy consistent mechanistic. Hence his contemptuous refusal, in one sentence, Kepler's explanation of how the tides due to the attraction of the moon. " Referring to Kepler, Galileo writes: " which, of acute intellect and free, and in his hand the motions attributed to the Earth, has also given ear predominates and agree to the moon over the water, and occult properties, and similar childhood. (1)
In this regard, in terms of handwriting can be seen that the combination is different for physics experimental and theoretical.
The ability to patiently experiment on the movements of the pendulum, the free fall and descent of bodies on an inclined plane and a hundred other issues examined by the great scientist, requires a person with a lot of memory material, typical of the tightness of letters and letters, are able to carefully observe all the different aspects of the legislation, including the more subtle variations that can occur in response to slight changes in environmental or experimental. So a strong unequal methods, intuition very original, but also the narrowness of letters and letters, which supports fully the personality in the strict observance, and therefore interpretation: no concessions, no mental flights, but the facts, just as intended coupling material. And you can understand why, for him, the very abstract idea for its time, a force (but what power?) That connects the moon tides may be too mystical for an experimental physicist with his training. Instead
theoretical physics requires a width of letters between the letter and at least on average and adequate width between words (Newton, for example), to have a mind fascinated by speculative formulations, rational and conceptual, as well as the ability to grasp the internal contradictions that may be present in the theoretical system developed.
1. Arthur Koestler, The act of creation , publisher Astrolabe, Rome 1975, p.. 418
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