Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter by Roger G. Newton

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

Roger G. Newton

153 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 swingi...

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