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Galileo's Two New Sciences: Translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (Macmillan, 1914)

NOTE:  these selections from Two New Sciences are excellent examples of his clarity and style.  They are particularly relevant to our course, Galileo and Einstein.   You can find the complete Two New Sciences here.

    1.  First Day:     pages 1-4: a discussion of Scaling.
    2.  First Day:     pages 61-69: rebuttal of Aristotle's theory of falling bodies.
    3.  Third Day:    pages 153, 154, 160-166: Naturally Accelerated Motion.
    4.  Fourth Day:  pages 244, 245, 248-254: the Motion of Projectiles.