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tring shows the measure. Fig. 3is still more compact, the string being adjusted bywinding (or unwinding) upon an axle at the backof the dial-plate. More than half a century later,as we shall see in the course of our narrative,Galileo utilised the same principle of the pendulumin the design of an… … Possenlis Luniij in ihc CaUicdral, Iisa. [ To /ace p. lo. 1589] THE PENDULUM II were little more than empty sounds to the studentswho thronged the lecture halls of Pisa, of Bologna,and even of learned Padua. Furthermore, Galileos ■§ hoI20 30405060708090100 Kg.l n u± i 1111 11111 xu. XXL 2 XL Fig. 2.
