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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >>IIRC, at some point Galileo was in charge of the Pisan artillery.   
   >>   
   >>I wonder if he was trying to find out why their "time on target"   
   >>computations [1] never worked with Aristotle's view of how things   
   >>fell.   
   >   
   >_Two New Sciences_ has a discussion of this and is well worth   
   >reading.  Note that Galileo is thinking throughout of bodies   
   >attracted to the earth and never makes that great jump of Newton's.   
      
   I take that back.  I thought there was a discussion of time of flight   
   but looking it up I find there is not.... it would be difficult to do   
   without the calculus I suspect.   
   --scott   
      
      
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