New Hampshire Theatre Project's Youth Repertory Company is proud to present "Galileo's Pendulum: Freedom of Thought," a provocative new work by Michael Megliola. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) never did ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After decades of experiments with the ...

Description: The length of a pendulum is shortened in mid swing by the string hitting a peg placed below the support. The bob swings to the height from which it was released. from Galileo Galilei ...

Newton (What Makes Nature Tick) explains the premise of his slim volume in a single sentence in the introduction:""This book is about the rhythm of time, how that rhythm was finally regulated by ...

Galileo’s Pendulum by Roger Newton, Harvard University Press, £14.95/$22.95, ISBN 067401331X Reviewed by Marcus Chown THIS book, Galileo’s Pendulum, reminds me of a London cabbie “doing the ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei provided a number of scientific insights that laid the foundation for future scientists. His investigation of the laws of motion and improvements on the telescope ...

Galileo is considered one of the greatest astronomers of all time. His discovery of Jupiter’s major moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) revolutionized astronomy and helped speed the acceptance ...

Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature -- Successors : ubiquitous timekeeping -- ...