Talk:De Motu (Berkeley's essay)

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Relativity[edit]

Berkeley's claim that objects exist as they are only in relation to an observing subject is the fundamental claim of relativity.Lestrade 18:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

Style of article[edit]

The following box has been attached to the article:

The article, however, does not deserve this box, because the article was purposely written as a paraphrase of Berkeley's essay. That is why it reads like an essay. If this is unacceptable, then the words "The essay says," "Berkeley says," or "The essay asserts," etc., will have to be inserted throughout the article. In this way, unwary readers will be reminded that the Wikipedia article itself is not making claims and declarations. Instead, the Wikipedia article is merely communicating Berkeley's claims and declarations.Lestrade (talk) 03:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

The original title was in Latin, so I added a correction. It seems to be conveyed a little differently in different sources, though, so it should be checked from the original publication. Also, the article could mention the translations in English and other languages - there aren't actually too many to account for. --Fatio de Duillier (talk) 19:17, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

shouldn't this title belong to Galileo's work of that nane>[edit]

Galileo wrote a work by this name, should not this be the subject? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.62.44.235 (talk) 16:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No. Newton also wrote a work by this name. There should be a distinction between the works entitled De Motu by Galileo, Newton, and Berkeley.Lestrade (talk) 20:14, 4 August 2020 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

These pages are all listed on the disambiguation page linked at the top of this article. Tkbrett (✉) 22:41, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

English translation[edit]

The work referenced in Footnote 1 of the article contains an English language translation by A. A. Luce. The reference is to Berkeley's Philosophical Writings, New York: Collier, 1974, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-22680Lestrade (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2020 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]