Sources

Drake, S., 1974, "Mathematics and Discovery in Galileo's Physics" in Historia Mathematica, Vol. 1, 129-150.

Drake, S., 1975, "New Light on a Galilean Claim about Pendulums", in Isis, Vol. 66, 92-95.

Drake, S. 1975, "The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments", in Scientific American, Vol. 232, No. 6 (Jun), 98-104

Drake, S., 1980, "Measurement in Galileo's Science", in History of Technology, Vol. 5, 39-54.

Drake, S., 1982, "Analysis of Galileo's Experimental Data". in Annals of Science, Vol. 39, 389-397.

Galilei, Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (New York: Dover) 1954. Translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio. See pages 178- 179.

Koyre, Alexandre, 1953, "An Experiment in Measurement", in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, No 2, 222-237.

Settle, Thomas B., 1961, "An Experiment in the History of Science", in Science, Vol. 133, No 3445, 19-23.

Sherman, Paul D., 1974, "Galileo and the Inclined Plane Controversy", in Physics Teacher, Vol. 12, 343-348.

Wisan, W.L., 1977, "Mathematics and Experiment in Galileo's Science of Motion" in Annali dell'Istituto e Meseo di Storia della Scienza, Anno 2 fasc 2, 149-160.


Last revised April 17, 1995

Jennifer Lacy

jbl@owlnet.rice.edu