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Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter

By Roger G. Newton

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780674041486
DOI
10.4159/9780674041486
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4610971 bytes)
Pages
176\174
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:40:10

Description

Newton sets the stage for Galileo’s discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks—contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation.

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