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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei
“it disturbs them all and disturbs them in an infinite variety of ways corresponding to the infinite variety in the form, weight, and velocity of the projectiles”
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Fourth Day, discussion after Theorem I, Proposition I, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)
Answering the objection that the parabola ignores the medium, Salviati concedes that air resistance escapes fixed laws and must be set aside in the demonstrations.
Citation: "it disturbs them all and disturbs them in an infinite variety of ways corresponding to the infinite variety in the form, weight, and velocity of the projectiles" — Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Fourth Day, discussion after Theorem I, Proposition I, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914). (id galileo-two-new-sciences-q10)
