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Quote: Galileo studied gravity by rolling a bronze ball down a long wooden beam; accuracy to a tenth of a pulse-beat
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In a wooden beam or rafter about twelve … the narrowest dimension, a little over an inch … within it a piece of vellum, as much … ball, well rounded and polished, the beam having … braccia, at will. … and we noted … the time that it consumed in running all … the amount of time, in which we never … we made the same ball descend only one- … always to be precisely one-half the other. … measured by water Google-1 Google-2
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