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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei
“for if his height be increased inordinately he will fall and be crushed under his own weight”
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Second Day, after Proposition VIII, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)
Applying the scaling principle to animals: a giant built in human proportions would need harder bones or would lose strength relative to an ordinary man.
Citation: "for if his height be increased inordinately he will fall and be crushed under his own weight" — Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Second Day, after Proposition VIII, trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914). (id galileo-two-new-sciences-q3)
