How Galileo dropped the ball and Fermat picked it up

DOI10.1007/s11229-009-9705-7zbMath1221.01059OpenAlexW2155282917MaRDI QIDQ542147

Bryan W. Roberts

Publication date: 8 June 2011

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4917/1/RobertsB_FermatPreprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

accelerationGalileoFermatDrakefreefallhistory of physics and mathematicsJesuit school

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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• Free fall from Albert of Saxony to Honoré Fabri
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