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 183
vention of the escapement, the determina-tion of the acceleration of gravity, g, by pendulum-observations, a proposition regarding the employmentof the length of the seconds pendulum as the unit oflength, the theorems respecting centrifugal force, themechanical and geometrical properties of… … Galileo, in all its perfection, the latters exalted andinimitable candor. He is frank without reserve in thepresentment of the methods that led him to his dis- THE PRINCIPLES OF D YNAMICS. 157 coveries, and thus alwaysconducts his reader into thefull comprehension of hisperformances. Nor had…
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