A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky

by Stillman Drake

The times-squared law that Galileo announced could have been discovered centuries before by any careful observer of the motion of heavy bodies. How this simple and elegant numerical description of the motion of falling bodies evaded all the best minds from Aristotle to Galileo's contemporaries is the subject of Stillman Drake's short monograph.

Genres: History Of Science

106 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Stillman Drake was a Canadian historian of science best known for his work on Galileo Galilei.