Eppur si muove . Glimpses of Galileo Galilei

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  • Clara Janés Universidad de París-Sorbona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16534

Keywords:

Inertial systems, simultaneity, mass, energy, speed of light

Abstract

When Einstein was in Madrid in 1923, he said that his theory of relativity was no more than the continuation of what Newton and Galileo had found. Certainly the latter studied the different movements and came to define their differences, concluding that the movement of a system is captured only in relation to “things that lack it; but among the things that participate equally in it, nothing operates and it is as if it did not exist”. In this text we try to explain the difference between his discovery of relativity and that of Einstein, which involves the equivalence of mass and energy and the fundamental valuation of the speed of light.

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Author Biography

Clara Janés, Universidad de París-Sorbona

Clara Janés holds a degree in Philosophy and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Her wide poetic production includes works such as Eros (1981), Vivir (1983), Kampa (1986), Lapidario (1988), Fractales (2005), Orbes del sueño (2013) and ψ o el jardín de las delicias (2014), and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a prolific translator (texts by Vladimír Holan, Jaroslav Seifert, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Katherine Mansfield and William Golding, among others). She has also published numerous works in prose, essays, e.g. Cirlot, el no mundo y la poesía imaginal (1996), La palabra y el secreto (1999), and María Zambrano. Desde la sombra llameante (2010) as well as novels such as Los caballos del sueño (1989) and El hombre de Adén (1991). Since 2015 she is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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Published

2019-12-29

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Janés, C. (2019). <i>Eppur si muove</i>. Glimpses of Galileo Galilei. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 18, 5–15. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16534
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Vol. 18 (2019)

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