Six early physics diagrams from the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Clockwise, from top left: Galileo's law of projectiles, Newton's explanation for the ebb and flow of the tide, Galileo's law of free fall, Simon Stevin's diagram of


Six early physics diagrams from the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Clockwise, from top left: Galileo's law of projectiles, Newton's explanation for the ebb and flow of the tide, Galileo's law of free fall, Simon Stevin's diagram of the balance of forces on an inclined plane, Olaus Roemer's measurement of the speed of light, and Christiaan Huygens' explanation of light as wave phenomena.


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