Galileo's pendulum : from the rhythm of time to the making of matter / Roger G. Newton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004Description: x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 067401331X
- 9780674013315
- 0674018486
- 9780674018488
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | QB209 .N48 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000037396 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-145) and index.
Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The 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.
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.
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General overview of timekeeping - well done but probably not any new material
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