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 HistoricalGalileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
$13.95 /Harvard Univ. Press/ 2005 The clock is usually taken for granted as a piece of useful but ordinary furniture. And time is usually seen ticking away in the background. But author Roger G. Newton, professor emeritus of physics at Indiana University, makes the clock, along with timekeeping, its history, and its effect on the science, not just interesting but enthralling. This short paperback
belies its modest looks to tell how the swing
of a chandelier in a church in Pisa in 1581, timed by the 17-year-old Galileo
Galilei using his own pulse, began a revolution in the understanding
of
time. Newton’s tightly written, fast-moving text is economic yet
vivid as he explores his subject first as a function of the body, then
as reflected in the calendar, through early clocks and pendulums to the
development of quantum mechanics. — Brenda Ralph Lewis |
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