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Based on "The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective," a videotape by Joseph W. Dauben, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College.

http://www.mcm.acu.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/mathofmotion1.html

Examines Galileo's experiments with the inclined plane to study acceleration and gravity, which shows the development of a mathematical study of acceleration.



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