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<a href="exhibits/works…-new-science.html">Works… A New Science</a> Tartaglia, Niccolo (1606)<p><p>Niccolò Tartaglia argued for the use of mathematics in physics, engineering and art. Tartaglia’s frontispiece shows Euclid guarding the gate of knowledge. Just inside, Perspectiva stands among the sciences that open the way to Philosophia.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/great-art-light-and-shadow.html">The Great Art of Light and Shadow</a> Kircher, Athanasius (1646)<p><p>A “camera obscura” (“dark room”) consists of a box or container in which light enters via a small hole and projects an image on an opposite wall. The image will be reversed and upside-down, but its proportions will be preserved.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/celestial-atlas-1729.html">Celestial Atlas, 1729</a> Flamsteed, John (1729)<p><p>A globe maker for the French royal family, J. Fortin, prepared this edition of Flamsteed’s celestial atlas in a much reduced format. Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal, who oversaw the building of the Greenwich Observatory. Newton relied upon Flamsteed’s star positions in his Principia.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/galileo-telescope-replica.html">Galileo Telescope replica</a> ( )<p><p>The optics, leather and gold tooling of the telescope suggest how scientific instruments were crafted with a combination of engineering expertise and bookbinding arts. Galileo’s telescope included two lenses, an ocular lens near the eye, and an objective lens at the far end of the tube.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/elements-geometry-1570.html">Elements of Geometry, 1570</a> Euclid, (1570)<p><p>Euclid was the starting point for any further study of optics and perspective. Optics combined geometry, experiment, vision and art. In the presentation of the geometrical solids, this copy retains the original pop-ups.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/treasury-optics.html">Treasury of Optics</a> al-Haytham, Ibn (1572)<p><p>The frontispiece depicts a variety of optical phenomena: Reflection. Refraction. Perspective. The rainbow. Burning mirrors.<br /></p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/divine-plato.html">The Divine Plato</a> Plato, (1491)<p><p>In his dialog entitled The Timaeus, Plato taught that the cosmos is constructed from regular geometrical figures known as the Pythagorean solids. Wherever one finds an emphasis upon mathematical demonstrations in science, one may credit Plato and the Pythagoreans.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/elements-geometry-1482.html">Elements of Geometry, 1482</a> Euclid, (1482)<p><p>Euclid was the starting point for a mathematical approach to physics. This is the 1st printed edition. The beautiful woodcuts are hand-colored in this copy. The text of the first page was printed in both black and red ink. The geometrical diagrams were quite difficult to prepare.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/book-air.html">The Book on Air</a> Hero of Alexandria, (1575)<p><p>Once an altar is lighted, the temple doors open automatically. Hero fashioned all sorts of marvelous automata using steam, air pressure, hydraulics and falling weights. Devices included an automatic wine dispenser, siphons, garden fountains, engines, pumps, steam-powered toys, and magic tricks...</p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/art-fire.html">On the Art of Fire</a> Biringuccio, Vannoccio (1540)<p><p>When Galileo needed to purchase plates of brass to make his engineering compass or commissioned glass to make better lenses, metalsmith, assayers and craftsmen in Venice employed operations similar to those described in Birunguccio’s metallurgical manual.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/mathematical-principles-natural-philosophy-1729.html">Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1729</a> Newton, Isaac (1729)<p><p>This is the first English translation of Newton’s masterwork in physics. The Copernican idea that the Earth moves as a planet required a thorough revision of physics. Galileo undertook this task in his Discourse on Two New Sciences, published 80 years after Copernicus.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/discourse-two-new-sciences.html">Discourse on Two New Sciences</a> Galileo, (1638)<p><p>Under house arrest after his trial, Galileo turned his attention to a number of topics that had long interested him. This is his masterwork of physics, the last book of Galileo’s to be published in his lifetime. These two sciences concern tensile strength and motion.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/wonderful-machines-far-west.html">Wonderful Machines of the Far West</a> Schreck, Johann (1830)<p><p>Schreck helped Galileo show the telescope to the Medici family and others in Rome. Once he arrived in China, he wrote this work on engineering in Chinese.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/works-greek-vol-1.html">Works in Greek, vol. 1</a> Aristotle, (1495-1498)<p><p>In a work entitled “On the Universe,” Aristotle argued that a 5th element, called ether or the quintessence, composes the celestial spheres that naturally rotate in place above the region where the four lower elements mix together beneath the Moon.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/euclids-elements-geometry-1594.html">Euclid's Elements of Geometry, 1594</a> Al-Tusi, Nasir ad-Din (1594)<p><p>This Arabic text of Euclid came from the circle of the Persian astronomer al-Tusi (13th century). Al-Tusi worked in Baghdad and in the observatory of Maragha, in modern northwestern Iran. Printing Arabic with moveable type was a technological challenge.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/discourse-floating-bodies.html">Discourse on Floating Bodies</a> Galileo, (1612)<p><p>To provide entertainment at a dinner held by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Galileo debated the Aristotelian physicist Lodovico delle Columbe on the topic of floating bodies. Galileo employed Archimedes’ mathematical analysis.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/natural-magic-1589.html">Natural Magic, 1589</a> Porta, Giambattista della (1589)<p><p>In this poster-sized work, the first publication of observations made with a microscope, Cesi and Stelluti studied the anatomy of the bee. The text includes classical references to bees as well as new knowledge, integrated in a tabular outline.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/natural-magick-1658.html">Natural Magick, 1658</a> Porta, Giambattista della (1658)<p><p>In Natural Magick, della Porta described an optical tube he designed to make far things appear as though they were near. The field of optics was often associated with magical tricks and illusions, and for that reason sometimes held suspect among non-mathematicians.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/motion-animals-1685.html">On the Motion of Animals, 1685</a> Borelli, Giovanni (1685)<p><p>This work of sports medicine analyzes the physics of bones and muscles. Borelli, a practicing mathematician and engineer as well as a physician, analyzed the musculoskeletal system in terms of the mechanics of the lever and other simple machines.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/works-greek-vol-2.html">Works in Greek, vol. 2</a> Aristotle, (1495-1498)<p><p>In a work entitled “On the Universe,” Aristotle argued that a 5th element, called ether or the quintessence, composes the celestial spheres that naturally rotate in place above the region where the four lower elements mix together beneath the Moon.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/pneumatics.html">On Pneumatics</a> Porta, Giambattista della (1606)<p><p>Della Porta explored various ideas for steam powered machines following the example of Hero of Alexandria. In antiquity, Hero fashioned marvelous automata using steam, air pressure, and hydraulics.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/euclide.html">Euclide</a> Tartaglia, Niccolo (1543)<p><p>Tartaglia, a teacher of a teacher of Galileo, produced the first vernacular translation of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/works-greek-vol-3-pt.html">Works in Greek, vol 3 pt. A</a> Aristotle, (1495-1498)<p><p>In a work entitled “On the Universe,” Aristotle argued that a 5th element, called ether or the quintessence, composes the celestial spheres that naturally rotate in place above the region where the four lower elements mix together beneath the Moon.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/considerations-tasso.html">Considerations on Tasso</a> Galileo, (1793)<p><p>Galileo employed his scientific acumen to engage in the literary debates of the day. Here he considered the merits of Tasso and Ariosto, comparing both with Dante. Using his new physics of tensile strength, Galileo refuted Ariosto’s indiscriminate descriptions of giants.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/phosphorescent-rock-or-light-bolognese-stone.html">Phosphorescent Rock, or, On the Light of the Bolognese Stone</a> Liceti, Fortunio (1640)<p><p>Galileo studied the “Stone of Bologna” or “solar sponge,” produced by alchemists from calcining spar (barium sulfide), which glows in the dark. Galileo inferred from its cool luminescence that light is not the same as heat, but a distinct entity, contra Aristotle.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/discourse-two-new-sciences-vol-1.html">Discourse on Two New Sciences, vol. 1</a> Galileo, (1656)<p><p>In this masterwork of physics, Galileo studied the two sciences of tensile strength and motion. The science of tensile strength considers how larger objects must bear more and more weight to perform the same action.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/problems-and-exercises-aristotle’s-mechanics.html">Problems and Exercises in Aristotle’s Mechanics</a> Baldi, Bernardino (1621)<p><p>Aristotle’s Mechanics contained an analysis of the principles of motion and simple machines. While no longer accepted as an authentic work by Aristotle, its influence among Renaissance scientist-engineers was profound, as illustrated in this commentary by Baldi.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/new-theater-machines.html">New Theater of Machines</a> Zonca, Vittorio (1621)<p><p>This “theater of machines” parades 40 different machines for any kind of purpose, whether a lock on a river, a book press or engraving press, or a device to prevent smoke from filling a room.Unlike the writings of Lorini and Galileo, which included theoretical investigations on the principles of...</p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/discourse-two-new-sciences-vol-2.html">Discourse on Two New Sciences, vol. 2</a> Galileo, (1656)<p><p>In this masterwork of physics, Galileo studied the two sciences of tensile strength and motion. The science of tensile strength considers how larger objects must bear more and more weight to perform the same action.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/essays-natural-experiences-1666.html">Essays on Natural Experiences, 1666</a> Accademia del Cimento, (1666)<p><p>The Academy of the Lynx (Accademia dei Lincei) dissolved after the death of its founder, Prince Federigo Cesi. In its place, Grand Duke Ferdinand II established the Academy of Experiment in Florence, which carried further the research program of Galileo.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/assayer-early-state.html">The Assayer, early state</a> Galileo , (1623)<p><p>The crest of the Barberini family, showing three busy bees, appears at the top of the frontispiece. Galileo’s supporter, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, had become Pope Urban VIII. The election of Barberini seemed to assure Galileo of support at the highest level in the Church.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/dialogue-two-chief-systems-world.html">Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World</a> Galileo, (1632)<p><p><strong>Featuring Galileo's Handwriting</strong>. This is Galileo’s witty and entertaining dialogue in defense of Copernicus. In the frontispiece, Aristotle and Ptolemy hold an Earth-centered armillary sphere (left). Copernicus holds a Sun-centered model of the universe (right).</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/works-archimedes.html">Works, Archimedes</a> Archimedes, (1543)<p><p>Archimedes (d. 212 B.C.) developed the law of the lever with his Treatise on the Balance. He contributed to arithmetic by devising methods for expressing extremely large numbers. He deduced many new geometrical theorems on spheres, cylinders, circles and spirals.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/new-science.html">New Science</a> Tartaglia, Niccolo (1558)<p><p>Tartaglia’s compass (also known as a “sector”) incorporated the functions of a quadrant and a caliper measuring device. His “new science” investigated the ballistics of cannonballs, laying a foundation for Galileo’s studies of projectile motion and free fall.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/works-greek-vol-5.html">Works in Greek, vol. 5</a> Aristotle, (1495-1498)<p><p>In a work entitled “On the Universe,” Aristotle argued that a 5th element, called ether or the quintessence, composes the celestial spheres that naturally rotate in place above the region where the four lower elements mix together beneath the Moon.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/sizes-and-distances-sun-and-moon.html">On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon</a> Samos, Aristarchus of (1572)<p><p>Aristarchus, the Copernicus of antiquity, proposed in the 3rd century B.C.E. that the Sun lies at the center of the universe and that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/essays-natural-experiences-1667.html">Essays on Natural Experiences, 1667</a> Accademia del Cimento, (1667)<p><p>The Academy transformed the thermoscope into the thermometer by adding a graduated scale (which had been done by Galileo and his friends) and by sealing the tube to make it independent of air pressure.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/assayer-later-state.html">The Assayer, later state</a> Galileo , (1623)<p><p>Although Galileo eloquently championed mathematical methods in science, the main target of his wit and sarcasm in The Assayer was Grassi, a fellow astronomer, whose mathematical methods proved that comets move above the Moon.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/realm-nebulae.html">The Realm of the Nebulae</a> Hubble, Edwin (1936)<p><p>Hubble’s investigations with the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson observatory, overlooking Los Angeles, California, led to a dramatic expansion of the universe. For Hubble, the universe is not limited to the Milky Way galaxy.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/conic-sections.html">On Conic Sections</a> Apollonius, (1710)<p><p>Apollonius (3rd century B.C.E.) examined the properties of conic sections; namely, the: • circle (cuts a cone horizontally, perpendicularly to the axis of the cone) • ellipse (cuts a cone to make a closed curve) • parabola (cuts a cone parallel to a side of the cone) • hyperbola (cuts a cone in...</p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/sphere-1511.html">On the Sphere, 1511</a> Proclus, (1511)<p><p>This work was attributed to Proclus (5th century), one of the most important Neoplatonic philosophers of late antiquity. It became one of the most popular introductions to astronomy during the Italian Renaissance, appearing in more than 70 16th-century editions.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/essays-natural-experiences-1701.html">Essays on Natural Experiences, 1701</a> Accademia del Cimento, (1701)<p><p>The Academy crafted a hygrometer to measure humidity in the air. They improved the barometer, and conducted many experiments with air pressure. The Academy also experimented with light and phosphorescence, radiant heat, the velocity of sound and many other topics.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/treatise-sphere.html">Treatise on the Sphere</a> Grassi, Oratio (1623)<p><p>In the same year that Galileo published The Assayer, Grassi delivered these lectures to Jesuit students in the Rome College (Collegio Romano).</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/burning-mirror.html">The Burning Mirror</a> Cavalieri, Bonaventura (1632)<p><p>Archimedes died defending the ancient city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, from the Carthaginian navy. Reports attributed the defense of the city to his ingenuity, including giant mirrors capable of setting attacking ships in the harbor on fire.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/commentary-al-qabisi.html">Commentary on Al-Qabisi</a> Al-Qabisi, (1512)<p><p>This medieval introduction to astrology was frequently translated from Arabic into Latin. Al-Qabisi lived in the 10th century in Syria.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/spectacle-according-eye-practical-optics.html">The Spectacle according to the Eye: Practical Optics</a> Manzini, Carlo Antonio (1660)<p><p>Galileo designed this lens grinding machine in 1639, when he was 75 years old. Galileo began grinding his own lenses as early as 1609.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/galileo-thermoscope-replica-bird-health-sciences-library.html">Galileo Thermoscope replica, Bird Health Sciences Library</a><p><p>Galileo’s thermoscope, developed in the context of pneumatic engineering, was an ancestor to the thermometer. Galileo pioneered scientific investigations with the thermoscope along with his two Paduan friends, Giovanni Sagredo and Santorio Santorio.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/commentary-aristotle’s-posterior-analytics.html">Commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics</a> Philoponus, (1504)<p><p>In the 6th century, the Greek physicist and theologian Philoponus constructed an anti-Aristotelian theory of motion. For Philoponus, an “impressed incorporeal motive force” explains the motion of a top, a projectile, and falling bodies.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/curious-technology.html">Curious Technology</a> Schott, Gaspar (1664)<p><p>Schott was among the first to report the “Miracle of Magdeburg,” the sensational story of Otto von Guericke’s public demonstration of the reality of the vacuum. Von Guericke bolted two large hemispheres together, then evacuated the air inside them with his air pump.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/motion-animals-1680-81.html">On the Motion of Animals, 1680 - 81</a> Borelli, Giovanni (1680-81)<p><p>The physics of bones and muscles: Borelli, a practicing mathematician and engineer as well as a physician, analyzed the musculoskeletal system in terms of the mechanics of the lever and other simple machines. Borelli studied under Galileo’s student Castelli, along with Torricelli.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/sphere-universe-0.html">On the Sphere of the Universe</a> bar Hiyya, Abraham (1546)<p><p>Abraham bar Hiyya, also known as Savasorda, was a 12th century Jewish mathematician and astronomer in Barcelona. In this beautiful introduction to astronomy, bar Hiyya’s text appears in Hebrew alongside a Latin translation.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/sphere.html">On the Sphere</a> Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (1490)<p><p>In University study from the 13th through 16th centuries, the most common introduction to the geocentric cosmos was the medieval work, On the Sphere, by Sacrobosco.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/new-experiments.html">New Experiments</a> von Guericke, Otto (1672)<p><p>In this work, von Guericke explained the design of his air pump and recounted additional experiments conducted with it. He employed the barometer to forecast the weather, and invented an electrostatic generator.</p>
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<a href="exhibits/mechanics.html">On Mechanics</a> Monte, Guidobaldo del (1577)<p><p>Hero described five simple machines: the lever, pulley, wheel, wedge and screw. In this theoretical investigation of the foundations of mechanics, Guidobaldo demonstrated that all five machines could be deduced from the principle of the lever.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/principles-philosophy.html">Principles of Philosophy</a> Déscartes, René (1644)<p><p>In Descartes’ cosmology, each star lies at the center of a “vortex,” or gigantic pool of circulating fluid. Stars and vortices are mortal, passing into and out of existence.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/conversations-plurality-worlds.html">Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds</a> Fontenelle, (1728)<p><p>In this dramatic and entertaining dialogue, Fontenelle explained Cartesian philosophy and cosmology and argued for the existence of life on other worlds. He justified a popular writing style by encouraging women and men to engage in pleasant evening conversation together on scientific topics.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/origin-continents-and-oceans.html">The Origin of Continents and Oceans</a> Wegener, Alfred (1924)<p><p>This page reflects Wegener’s interest in temperature fluctuations and patterns of glaciation. The theory of continental drift developed from Wegener’s researches in Greenland as a meteorologist with an interest in polar climate.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/galileo-mechanics.html">Galileo, Mechanics</a> Marsenne, Marin (1634)<p><p>As a young scientist-engineer, Galileo wrote two manuscripts on motion. The first, Delle macchine, written ca. 1592; reflected the tradition of Aristotle’s Mechanics. It was never printed. The second, revised study, Le mechaniche, written ca.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/chronology-ancient-kingdoms-amended.html">The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended</a> Newton, Isaac (1728)<p><p>Newton believed that Solomon’s Temple encoded his inverse square law for universal gravitation. To Newton, his grandest achievement was merely a rediscovery of the treasures of ancient wisdom.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/mathematical-principles-natural-philosophy-1687.html">Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687</a> Newton, Isaac (1687)<p><p>The Copernican idea that the Earth moves as a planet required a thorough revision of physics. Galileo undertook this task in his Discourse on Two New Sciences, published 80 years after Copernicus.</p></p> </td>
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<a href="exhibits/mathematical-discourses.html">Mathematical Discourses</a> Galileo , (1730)<p><p>This is the first separate English edition of Galileo’s Discourse on Two New Sciences, his masterwork in mathematical physics. The “two new sciences” are tensile strength and motion.</p></p> </td>
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