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" ... but we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling with an acceleration such as actually occurs in nature and to make this definition of accelerated motion exhibit the essential features of observed accelerated motions. "
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences - Page 160
by Galileo Galilei - 1914 - 300 pages
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Freedom of the Mind in History

Henry Osborn Taylor - Civilization - 1923 - 324 pages
...passes to accelerated motion. It will not concern itself with imaginary motions, but solely with " the phenomena of bodies falling with an acceleration such as actually occurs in nature," and Galileo will make his definition or description " of accelerated motion exhibit the essential features...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and ...

Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...commendably established the properties which these curves possess in virtue of their definitions ; but we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling...belief we are confirmed mainly by the consideration M Two Great Systems, p. 301. that experimental results are seen to agree with and exactly correspond...
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Critical Problems in the History of Science

Marshall Clagett - Science - 1959 - 564 pages
...motion and discuss its properties," he wrote in a famous passage in the Two New Sciences. 16 "But we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling...essential features of observed accelerated motions." Galileo's experiments with a ball rolling down an inclined plane to measure the relation between "space...
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Great Experiments in Physics: Firsthand Accounts from Galileo to Einstein

Morris H. Shamos - Science - 1987 - 384 pages
...curves possess in virtue of their definitions; hut we have decided to consider the phenomena of hodies falling with an acceleration such as actually occurs...and to make this definition of accelerated motion exhihit the essential features of ohserved accelerated motions." And this, at last, after repeated...
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Robert Boyle Reconsidered

Michael Hunter - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 256 pages
...maintained that 'anyone may invent an arbitrary type of motion and discuss its properties', but he wished to 'consider the phenomena of bodies falling with...exhibit the essential features of observed accelerated motions'.17 Boyle often used Galileo's work as an example of how experience could correct the judgements...
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Idealization VII: Structuralism, Idealization and Approximation

Martti Kuokkanen - Philosophy - 1994 - 386 pages
...This is how Galileo presents his theoretical goal in the analysis of the phenomenon of free fall: we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling...definition of accelerated motion exhibit the essential fcatures of observed accelerated motion [Galileo 1963, p. 154]. The point is which features pertaining...
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Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Mortimer Jerome Adler - Psychology - 1994 - 278 pages
...commendably established the properties which these curves possess in virtue of their definitions; but we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling...we are confirmed mainly by the consideration that the experimental results are seen to agree with and exactly correspond with those properties which...
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The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo

Alistair Cameron Crombie - Science - 1995 - 756 pages
...possessed in virtue of their definitions might be interesting, even though not met with in nature. 'But we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodies falling...features of observed accelerated motions.' And this, he concluded, he had eventually succeeded in doing, and was confirmed in this belief by the exact agreement...
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The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment

Rose-Mary Sargent - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 374 pages
...maintained that "anyone may invent an arbitrary type of motion and discuss its properties," but he wished to "consider the phenomena of bodies falling with...essential features of observed accelerated motions."" The properties of motion have to be "discovered by experiments." But as Galileo noted, this "pathway...
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Idealization VII: Structuralism, Idealization and Approximation

Martti Kuokkanen - Philosophy - 1995 - 388 pages
...in the analysis of the phenomenon of free fall: we have decided to consider the phenomena of bodics falling with an acceleration such as actually occurs...exhibit the essential features of observed accelerated motion [Galilco 1963, p. 154]. The point is which features pertaining to the "observed falling bodies"...
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