Galileo’s Theorem of Equivalence: The Missing Keystone of His Theory of Motion

Abstract

When Favaro, Caverni and Wohlwill began to publish and comment on Galileo’s early notes on motion in the late 19th century, a new perspective was opened to the history of science: it was as if an important step in the formation of modern science could now be seen under the microscope. Indeed, in the Edizione Nazionale,1 which Favaro began publishing in 1890, not only all the published works, but nearly every work sheet that contains a single complete sentence of Galileo can be found.

It is my purpose … to show you Galileo in his working clothes, tending his scientific garden Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work

Rien, en effet, n’est plus instructive que l’erreur Alexandre Koyré, Etudes Galiléennes