Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II…Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l’acqua, o che in quella si muovono.
The second augmented edition of Galileo’s classic on hydrostatics, published the same year within months of the first edition, represents his first published work in physics (Drake, p. 179). The Discorso is hailed by historians of science as having united for the first time two previously separate disciplines: statics and..... More