Quote: define a world-wide standard for the acceleration of naturally falling, heavy bodies; first world-wide standard of measure

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… so it is necessary to assign some measure … As explained previously, the Author deemed suitable for … [accelerated] speed of naturally falling heavy bodies, of which the growing … [translator's footnote] Galileo had no reason to suspect that altitude and latitude … of measure based on a universally familiar phenomenon. …   Google-1   Google-2

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