Galileo's Pendulum
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| Originally published | 2004 |
| Authors | Roger G. Newton |
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| ID | 2908673 |
About Galileo's Pendulum
Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. . . .