The science of mechanics; a critical and historical account of its development (1902)
Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916, McCormick, Thomas Joseph, 1865- tr · Chicago, The Open court publishing company; · leaf 156
observations, philosophers had concluded that heavybodies fall more quickly and lighter bodies more slowly,or, more precisely, that bodies of greater weight fallmore quickly and those of less weight more slowly. Itis sufficiently obvious from this that the dynamicalknowledge of the ancients,… … 2. The treatise Discorsi e dimostrazioni inatematiche,in which Galileo communicated to the world the first I30 THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. Galileos dynamical investigation of the laws of falling bodies, investiga- . . , /^ ti j- tionof the appeared in i6s8. The modern spirit that Cjanieo dis- laws of…
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