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Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

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