Extracts from Galileo's Two New Sciences

 

  1. First Day: pages 1-4: a discussion of scaling.
  2. First Day: pages 61-69: rebuttal of Aristotle's theory of falling bodies.
  3. Third Day: Naturally Accelerated Motion: pages 153, 154, 160-166.
  4. Fourth Day: the Motion of Projectiles: pages 244, 245, 248-254.

 

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