How Galileo dropped the ball and Fermat picked it up

DOI10.1007/S11229-009-9705-7zbMATH Open1221.01059OpenAlexW2155282917MaRDI QIDQ542147FDOQ542147

Authors: Bryan W. Roberts 

Publication date: 8 June 2011

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4917/1/RobertsB_FermatPreprint.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

accelerationGalileoFermatDrakefreefallhistory of physics and mathematicsJesuit school

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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