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Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... Galileo rotation of Earth experimental demonstration laboratory ...
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027270-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... The appendix describes an apparatus set up by Galileo in 1608 to measure velocity, a necessary step in proving that the Earth is in motion, rotating on its own axis while circling the Sun. Stengers explores how what was “perhaps the first experimental demonstration” worked, and she argues...