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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days) by Galileo Galilei
“in such experiments, repeated a full hundred times, we always found that the spaces traversed were to each other as the squares of the times, and this was true for all inclinations of the plane”
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Third Day, after Theorem II, Proposition II (the inclined-plane experiment), trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)
Salviati reports experiments made in the Author's company with a bronze ball rolling down a parchment-lined groove, timed by weighing water from a jet.
Citation: "in such experiments, repeated a full hundred times, we always found that the spaces traversed were to each other as the squares of the times, and this was true for all inclinations of the plane" — Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days), Third Day, after Theorem II, Proposition II (the inclined-plane experiment), trans. Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914). (id galileo-two-new-sciences-q7)
