Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

[Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>]

That was, I think, one of his arguments for continued straight line  
motion.  Sometimes you see it shown as two ramps rather than a bowl.

joe

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On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> That's quite contrary to what I was taught!, incorrectly??
>
> I remember a drawing of a marble oscillating in a bowel with one  
> side being progressively flattened.  His argument:  with flat the  
> marble continues "forever". A "gedanken"?
>
> bc disabused?
>
>
>
> On 2010, Sep 22, , at 08:50, Joseph Bellina wrote:
>
> > He needed some sort of circular inertia to explain the continue
> > motion of the planets.  Just a guess, perhaps he appealed to the
> > ideal circular motion as why they continued.
> >
> > joe
>
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