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Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:49:02 JST Project Gutenberg
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"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in..."
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath Galileo Galilei died #OTD in 1642.
Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and "hydrostatic balances". via @wikipedia
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1. Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, 1636. Uffizi Museum, Florence.
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2. Title cover of The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei by Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler
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