物理学革命伽利略和牛顿.DOCVIP

PAGE 1 PAGE 9 第十三章　物理學革命：伽利略和牛頓 地面力學(Terrestrial Mechanics)：伽利略(Galileo) (From Richard S. Westfall 1971, The Construction of Modern Science (Cambridge Uni. Press, 1977) Galileo’s problem of free fall body: (p.16-17) From its beginning, Galileo career focused upon the science of motion. His earliest important work, stemming from the early 1590’s, the approximate period of Kepler’s first work, was entitled De motu. De motu reveals that Galileo began his career as an adherent of the impetus school of mechanics. Galileo abandoned the mechanics of De motu when it proved itself unable to