Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton.
Newton, Roger G.
2004
QB209 .N48 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton.
Author Newton, Roger G.
ISBN 067401331X (alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Language English
Description x, 153 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number QB209 .N48 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 529/.7
Summary Bored at Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead and remarked to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-145) and index.
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Biological timekeeping; the body's rhythms
Calendar; different drummers
Early clocks; home-made beats
Pendulum clock; the beat of nature
Successors; ubiquitous timekeeping
Isaac Newton; the physics of the pendulum
Sound and light; oscillations everywhere
Quantum; oscillators make particles.

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