The role of experiment in Galileo's early work on the law of fall

Annals of Science 37 (4):363-378 (1980)
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Beginning with an overview of Galileo's earliest work on free fall, the paper examines the relationship between experiment and theory in his study of motion in the period immediately before and after 1604. The possible role of experiment is assessed in relation to the manuscript evidence and by means of reconstructed experiments

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