A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky by Stillman Drake

A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky

Stillman Drake

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The times-squared law that Galileo announced could have been discovered centuries before by any careful observer of the motion of heavy bodies. How this simple and elegant numerical description of the motion of falling bodies evaded all the best m...

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