Re: [Phys-l] nifty pendulum, conservation, et cetera

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

"It's amusing to wonder what he might have accomplished if he
hadn't been arrested."


OTOH the forced semi-isolation * and "time on his hands" may have been a 
boon, well not the most pleasant for him.  If I am to believe that 
Marxist playwright, he did his marble ina bowel experiments while house 
arrested. Did he start writing the "Dialogue ..." in house?

Another:,  depending on one's politics, he's another unfortunate example 
of war driving science. Wasn't he a ballistics expert, because he was 
hired by the Medicis?   He was, born in Florence.

* G. Hardin argues that many great scientific works occur while 
isolated, e.g. Darwin & Newton during the plague. Einstein is an exception?


bc, whose Italian fluent father led him to the Academia in '84 ( A week 
later to the Musée des arts et Métiers.)


John Denker wrote:

> Bob LaMontagne wrote:
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> > I don't mean to hijack this thread, 
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> Not a problem.  The content of this thread has been as much about
> history as anything else (although one might not know it from the
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> *) Lots of other stuff.
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> I am not suggesting that everybody go out and read the book, or
> assign it to students.  It's full of pre-modern mathematics that
> puts people to sleep.  But it's good to remember the book exists.
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> It's amusing to wonder what he might have accomplished if he
> hadn't been arrested.
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