Galileo and the equivalence principle: a faulty argument with the correct conclusion

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/36/6/065044zbMath1332.83018OpenAlexW2290267787MaRDI QIDQ2793798

Shahen Hacyan

Publication date: 17 March 2016

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/36/6/065044

zbMATH Keywords

equivalence principleGalileohistory of physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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