"While Stevin investigated , Galileo pursued principally dynamics. Galileo was the first to abandon the Aristotelian idea that bodies descend more quickly in proportion as they are heavier; he established the first law of motion; determined the laws of falling bodies; and, having obtained a clear notion of acceleration and of the independence of different motions, was able to prove that projectiles move in parabolic curves. Up to his time it was believed that a cannon-ball moved forward at first in a straight line and then suddenly fell vertically to the ground. Galileo had an understanding of s, and gave a correct definition of '. Though he formulated the fundamental principles of statics, known as the s, yet he did not fully recognise its scope. The principle of virtual velocities was partly conceived by Guido Ubaldo (died 1607), and afterwards more fully by Galileo."
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Florian Cajori, A History of Elementary Mathematics (1898)
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Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
italienischer Naturforscher und Astronom
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