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Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
Summary
I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis.
(Galileo Galilei in a letter to Johannes Kepler)salviati: Greetings, Sagredo, Simplicio, my good friends. I can hardly believe that it was only yesterday that we resolved to meet and talk about this book. How the time drags when I am not in pleasant company such as yours.
simplicio: Greetings to you, most courteous Salviati, and well met, well met I say. My mind is already racing in anticipation. I have not forgotten, and could not forget, our wonderful discussions with Professor Galileo in Tuscany, and I am convinced that on this occasion too you have found something worth the labour of a Dialogue (Galilei, 1632).
sagredo: For my part I am also delighted to see you both again. In the company of two such philosophers as yourselves I never fail to find inspiration and illumination. Now, would you care to tell me the nature of the subject, Salviati?
salviati: Certainly, certainly, shall I come to the point: I feel that a change is happening, just as it was when we met with Professor Galileo.
simplicio: Change! Ha!
sagredo: Now, now, Simplicio … Let's hear this out. The book is about a change, is it? But I don't understand even the title.
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- Econophysics and CompaniesStatistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks, pp. xxiii - xxviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010