Justin BodenFeb 26
In response to The First Scientist
This is so far from what Galileo was about it isn’t funny. He was the sort of person who would happily spend a lifetime studying a petal, knowing that he may never understand the flower. ‘Scientific method’ is an anachronism for him, while the whole experimentation-hypothesis thing would be duked out later. (See: Boyle and Hobbes.) I mean, I get it, this comic isn’t really about Galileo, but by making the text of the comic sixteenth-century science (and the subtext contemporary society) it misses genuine critiques of science and presents a reductive perspective of history that is intellectually disengenuous. Ironically enough the artist, complaining about popularist notions, is invoking one himself.