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Kinematics - Galileo

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• Salviati (“heliocentric"), from the name of Filippo<br />

Salviati, <strong>Galileo</strong>’s friend.<br />

• Sagredo (“neutral"), from the name of<br />

Giovanfransesco Sagredo, <strong>Galileo</strong>’s friend.<br />

• Simplicio (“Aristotelian"), from the name of the<br />

Greek Aristotelian philosopher of the 6 th century<br />

AD Simplicius, but a play of words, as well<br />

(=naïve).<br />

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