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Drake, S., "Galileo's discovery of the law of free fall", Scientific American, 228, 5, pp. 84-92, May 1973. Google
88 ;;Quote: Galileo discovered the equation for acceleration in free fall by seeking a general rule of proportionality for uniform growth of distances, times, and speeds
88+;;Quote: Galileo depended on the Euclidean theory of proportion for the application of mathematics to physics
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