Questions tagged [galileo]
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer from Pisa.
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"Geocentrism vs heliocentrism" and (pre-Lorentzian) relativity
A similar question to mine below is asked at How Galileo could both possibly say that Earth is revolving around the Sun and develop the Galilean relativity?, but since the questions are not identical, ...
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Did Galileo know about logarithms?
In his expository article/ booklet "The logarithm and the exponent" (Russian: А. Шень, "Логарифм и экспонента", 2 изд., М.:МЦНМО, 2013) Alexandr Shen' introduces the notion of ...
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Did Leonardo da Vinci discover the parabolic trajectory of projectiles?
I download a pdf of the Codex Madrid by Leonardo da Vinci, which are a lot of his notes of Statics and Machines, and in it I was suprised to see he traced out trajectories clearly going in a parabolic ...
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When did we figure out that lunar maria were actually basaltic lava flows?
Lunar maria are large flood basalt deposits that can be seen with the naked eye, appearing as darker regions on the Moon's surface. In the past, people thought they were seas and oceans, hence the ...
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Source of Galileo quote on curves
In George Simmons' Calculus Gems there is an interesting quote, supposedly from Galileo, pertaining to whether one can compare curved and straight lines (in length, for instance):
Who is so blind as ...
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When was Galileo's De Motu (Antiquiora) Made Available to the Public?
This question is in regard to Galileo's early writings on motion titled De Motu (On Motion) or De Motu Antiquiora (Older Writings On Motion).
It is understood that Galileo never published this ...
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Did Archimedes or anyone else prior to Galileo think that heavier things did not fall faster?
I think I saw a high school science film in which Galileo is eating with nobility or something and the scientist amazes a young woman by simply dropping an orange and a grape, saying, if heavier ...
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Is Koestler's ‘The Sleepwalkers’ still well regarded? Is there a more recent similar source?
Arthur Koestler's The Sleepwalkers is well-known as both a group biography of Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo and an account of the revolutionary turn in astronomy that, in Koestler's phrasing, ...
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Does Galilean/Newtonian mechanics reject both consequences of Aristotle's dynamical pseudo-law : $ V = F/m$, or only consequence (1)?
Note : my question is not as to whether consequence (2) is correctly derived from Arstotle's "law" ( I think it is the case) but as to whether this consequence is still true in Newtonian ...
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How Galileo could both possibly say that Earth is revolving around the Sun and develop the Galilean relativity?
I always have been curious about this part of the History of Science. To claim that Earth is orbiting the Sun instead of the opposite is equivalent to change one absolute referential (Earth) to ...
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What's the difference between Galileo's "impeto" and "momento"?
In Galileo's Two New Sciences, he describes an experiment demonstrating pendulum motion and how the pendulum will rise to the same height from where it started its fall. This discussion can be found ...
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Newton's Corollary #1 to the Laws of Motion (Principia)
I'm currently working through selected portions of Newton's Principia, but I'm already stuck in trying to understand his explanation for the first corollary (i.e., Corollary I) to the laws of motion. ...
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What did Galileo's "pulsilogon" look like?
Reading how Galileo measured time in the experiment with inclined plane, it says on Wikipedia, that:
Galileo accurately measured these short periods of time by creating a pulsilogon. This was a ...
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What's the true story about Galilei? [closed]
Scientists use the story of Galilei to advocate the glory of the sciences and the stupidity of the church. This is obvious from ironic remarks made by them that criticize its attitude. In fact, this ...
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Galileo's discovery of the independence of motion
It is well-known that Galileo was the first one to state that motions in different dimensions (or components) are independent of one another. Where is this in Galileo's writings?
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