The Galileo Project - Pendulum Clock
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Description: Describes Galileo's work on pendulums and the pendulum clock.
The Galileo Project | Science | Pendulum Clock In Aristotelian physics, which was still the predominant way to explain the behavior of bodies near the Earth, a heavy body (that is, one in which the element earth predominated) sought its natural place, the center of the universe. The back and forth motion of a heavy body suspended from a rope was therefore not a phenomenon that could explain or illustrate much. It was outside the paradigm.
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