Article ID: CBB000044263

Galileo, Viviani, and the tower of Pisa (1989)

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Description “Is the story of the leaning tower experiment true or false? The purpose of the present article is to present the story, the arguments for and against it, and to propose a new way of looking at the whole problem by considering it not as a problem of Galileo's science, but rather as a problem of Viviani's `history' of science, relying on Viviani's, rather than on Galileo's papers.”


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Authors & Contributors
Gangopadhyaya, Asim
Frank, Martin
Wolff, Michael
Torunczyk, A.
Teichmann, Jürgen
Takahashi, Ken'ichi
Journals
Synthese
Science in Context
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
Edizioni di Pagina
Olschki
Concepts
Mechanics
Physics
Gravitation
Mathematics
Motion (physical)
Telescopes
People
Galilei, Galileo
Viviani, Vincenzo
Torricelli, Evangelista
Newton, Isaac
Mersenne, Marin
Descartes, René
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Renaissance
16th century
Places
Italy
Europe
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