Galileo 24 by Debbie Loftus
Preface by Ian Stewart
Introduction by Paul Williamson
Draw two concentric circles, one twice the size of the other, and fill the inner circle with an infinite number of radii. Now extend each radius to the circumference of the outer circle, and gaps appear between the extensions. But, if the radii filling the smaller circle are infinite in number, how can more be needed to fill the outer one? Infinity means infinity … doesn’t it? Outlined by Galileo in Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences (1638), this is the starting point for Galileo 24 by Debbie Loftus, a remarkable series of images based on the problem known as Galileo’s Paradox or Aristotle’s Wheel. Galileo 24 includes Paul Williamson’s essay ‘Infinities’, and a preface by Professor Ian Stewart, author of Infinity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2017).
Galileo 24
Published by Festival O/Modernt,
General Editor Paul Williamson,
Cambridge & Stockholm, June 2017.
Paperback with jacket wrap, 320 x 235 mm.
Designed by Dmitriy Myelnikov.
Paper by Fedrigoni.
Printed by Pureprint, Uckfield, UK.
ISBN: 978-0-9928912-4-4
To read an extract from ‘Infinities’, Paul Williamson’s introduction to Galileo 24, click here.
