num_pages: 106
description: The times-squared law that Galileo announced could have been discovered centuries before by any careful observer of the motion of heavy bodies. How this simple and elegant numerical description of the motion of falling bodies evaded all the best minds from Aristotle to Galileo's contemporaries is the subject of Stillman Drake's short monograph.
language: English
title: A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky
titlecomplete: A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky
genres: History Of Science
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Wall & Emerson, Inc.