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Friday, April 26, 2013

Galileo and Gravity


"The Galileo Affair"
(Galileo's Collision Course With The Catholic Church)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

See Galileo's gravitation experiment re-enacted on the moon:

"Galileo's Daughter" is a captivating book, recounting the relationship between Galileo and his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Daughter


Maria Celeste (Virginia) Galilei (1600-1634)
http://galileo.rice.edu/fam/maria.html

Loren Shriver
Credit: NASA
Gravity: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Here on Earth, we take gravity so for granted that it took an apple falling from a tree to trigger Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation. But gravity, which draws objects together in proportion to their mass, is about much more than fallen fruit. Read on for some of the strangest facts about this universal force.
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