Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 91
founder of experi-mental science ; was son of an impoverished nobleman of Pisa; studied medi-cine in early youth, but forsook it for mathematics and science; was professorof mathematics at Pisa and at Padua; discovered the laws of falling bodies andthe laws of the pendulum ; was the creator of the… … ^ 0) --^ CI be a ;;r a PM ho FALLING BODIES 73 Galileo tried it himself. In the presence of the professors and students of the University of Pisa he dropped balls of different sizes and materials from the top of the tower of Pisa (Fig. 76), 180 feet high, and found that they fell in practically the…
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