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To: dr_lew
Well, Galileo was wrong. (tee-hee!)
18 posted on 02/21/2009 12:09:05 AM PST by TimSkalaBim (Let's have some heliocentric fun!)
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To: TimSkalaBim
Galileo was famously wrong on many particulars. My personal favorite is his botched attempt to derive the law of centripetal force, which Newton summarily dispatched in Lemma XI of Book I:

The evanescent subtense to the angle of contact, in all curves which at the point of contact have a finite curvature, is ultimately as the square of the subtense of the conterminous arc.

Ho ho! How did he miss that one?

19 posted on 02/21/2009 12:26:47 AM PST by dr_lew
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