15. Galileo's Accuracy in Measuring Horizontal Projections

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. Part V. Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
5. Introduction 3
6. 1. The Title Page and Preface of Galileo's Dialogue 5
7. 2. The Organizing Theme of the Dialogue 23
8. 3. Reexamining Galileo's Dialogue 38
9. 4. Galileo Gleanings - XVI Semicircular Fall in the Dialogue 58
10. 5. Galileo Gleanings - XVII The Question of Circular Inertia 69
11. 6. The Tower Argument in the Dialogue 86
12. 7. Galileo Gleanings - X Origin and Fate of Galileo's Theory of the Tides 97
13. 8. History of Science and Tide Theories 107
14. Part VI. Galileo: Motion and Mechanics, including the Discourses on Two New Sciences
15. Introduction 117
16. 1. Galileo and the Law of Inertia 121
17. 2. The Concept of Inertia 134
18. 3. Galileo's Experimental Confirmation of Horizontal Inertia: Unpublished Manuscripts (Galileo Gleanings XX.II) 147
19. 4. Galileo's Discovery of the Parabolic Trajectory 160
20. 5. Galileo's New Science of Motion 171
21. 6. Galileo's 1604 Fragment on Falling Bodies (Galileo Gleanings XVIII) 187
22. 7. Uniform Acceleration, Space, and Time (Galileo Gleanings XIX) 208
23. 8. The Uniform Motion Equivalent to a Uniformly Accelerated Motion from Rest (Galileo Gleanings XX) 233
24. 9. Galileo's Discovery of the Law of Free Fall 248
25. 10. Galileo Gleanings - XXIII Velocity and Eudoxian Proportion Theory 265
26. 11. Galileo's Work on Free Fall in 1604 281
27. 12. Mathematics and Discovery in Galileo's Physics 292
28. 13. The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments 307
29. 14. New Light on a Galilean Claim about Pendulums 316
30. 15. Galileo's Accuracy in Measuring Horizontal Projections 321
31. 16. Galileo and Mathematical Physics 332
32. 17. Galileo's Physical Measurements 346
33. 18. Galileo's Constant 357
34. 19. Galileo's Gravitational Units 370
35. Index 377