Current Reading

This blog is primarily for me to blog my responses to books that I'm reading. Sometimes I blog about other stuff too, though.

Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Galileo's ship

I've seen debates about whether Galileo actually conducted certain experiments or not.  On page 297 of The Tuscan Artist, Greco says that the ship experiment, in which an object is tossed straight upward on a steadily moving ship, only to fall at the feet of the person who tossed it, was performed in 1624. I hope it's true.  He cites some works be L. Conti (1990), which were written in Italian.