Re: Gallileo and falling bodies

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From: Richard Long
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 17:58

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In article <1992Apr1.220153.8855@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> court@newton.physics.mun.ca  
(J. Lewis) writes:
> It is worth consulting what Galileo himself wrote.  "Dialogues Concerning Two
                                                       ---------
> New Sciences" is perfectly readable, in translation;  in fact it sounds not
> unlike a tidied-up sci.physics flame war!  E.g.

> 
> John Lewis
> Physics Dept.
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
I knew that I spoke to soon!  It's Dialogues, not Discourses.  Anyway, I should  
have known that one of you crack physicists would already have keyboards ablaze  
with the original.

Richard Long: long@next1.acme.ucf.edu

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