Galileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all material
things have 'this or that shape' and are small or large in relation to other things. He also
says that material objects are either in motion or at rest, touching or not touching some
other body, and are either one in number, or many. The central properties of the material
world are mathematical and strengthened through experimentation. Galileo excludes the
properties of tastes, odors, colors, and so on when describing the material world. He
states that these properties 'reside only in the consciousness.'…
