They had two daughters, Virginia (born in 1600) and Livia (born in 1601), and a son, Vincenzo (born in 1606). Spencer Spencer Spencer SpencerGalileo discovered the law of pendulum. No matter how wide an arc the lamps made, the time it took to complete a cycle, swinging from one side to the other was the same, even as the size of the arc decreased. This law states that swinging objects follow the same path and have a period between swings that remains constant. This was one of his first major discoveries. While Galileo's application of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standard ones of the day, including dozens of examples of an inverse proportion square root method passed down from Fibonacci and Archimedes. The analysis and proofs relied heavily on the Eudoxian theory of proportion, as set forth in the fifth book of Euclid's Elements. This theory had become available only a century before, thanks to accurate translations
They had two daughters, Virginia (born in 1600) and Livia (born in 1601), and a son, Vincenzo (born in 1606). Spencer Spencer Spencer SpencerGalileo discovered the law of pendulum. No matter how wide an arc the lamps made, the time it took to complete a cycle, swinging from one side to the other was the same, even as the size of the arc decreased. This law states that swinging objects follow the same path and have a period between swings that remains constant. This was one of his first major discoveries. While Galileo's application of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standard ones of the day, including dozens of examples of an inverse proportion square root method passed down from Fibonacci and Archimedes. The analysis and proofs relied heavily on the Eudoxian theory of proportion, as set forth in the fifth book of Euclid's Elements. This theory had become available only a century before, thanks to accurate translations