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Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter /
Bored at Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead and remarked to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Bored at Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead and remarked to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 153 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-145) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674041486 0674041488 |