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TWO
NEW SCIENCES
Including Centers of Gravity and Force of Percussion
Galileo Galilei
Bound with
A HISTORY OF FREE FALL
ARISTOTLE TO GALILEO
With an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky
Stillman Drake
Two New Sciences is
Galileo's single most important work, which established physics as a
modern science. This edition is the authoritative translation by Stillman Drake. This is one of the great classics of
the history of science. Bound with this edition, in the paperback
binding, is Drake's analysis of the historical roots of Galileo's
breakthrough discovery of the law of falling bodies--a topic dealt with
at length by Galileo in Two New Sciences.
ISBN 0-921332-50-5
$39.95 (Cdn), $33.95 (US)
Paperback, 466 pages
The late Stillman Drake was Professor of the History of
Science at the University
of Toronto and the
recognized world authority on the life and work of Galileo. He was
awarded the 1988 Sarton Medal of the History of
Science Society.
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Emerson Inc. - All rights reserved.
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