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 166
heavybodies and cause themto begin simultaneous-ly their motion of des-cent. The bodies willalways form at any one instant of time a circle. After the lapse of a longer timethey will be found in a circle of larger radius, and theradii increase proportionally to the squares of thetimes. If we… … I40 THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. perceived by imagining the figure revolved about thevertical A V.Character^ 8. We see thus,—as deserves again to be brieflyi°nqufriel° ^ noticed,—that Galileo did not supply us with a theoryof the falling of bodies, but investigated and estab-lished, wholly without…
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