After decades of experiments with the pendulum, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) conceived of a pendulum clock that could be used to determine longitude at sea. Near the end of his life, blind and in ...

Object Details Author Newton, Roger G Contents Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature ...

Pendulum Clock During the 16th century, Aristotelian physics was still the predominant way of explaining the behavior of bodies near the Earth. For example, it was believed that heavy bodies ...

Huygens solved the essential problem in Galileo’s concept by “making the period of a pendulum truly constant by devising a pivot that caused the suspended body, or bob, to swing along the arc of a ...

Experiment with three pendulums that are 1-ft, 2.25-ft, and 9-ft long. Determine how many times the 2.25-ft and 9-ft pendulums swing during the time it takes the 1-ft pendulum to swing 30 times ...

Galileo realized that since the moons of Jupiter obeyed Kepler's laws, they could serve as a kind of heavenly clock. A clock more precise than any human-made clock of the time.

New Hampshire Theatre Project's Youth Repertory Company is proud to present "Galileo's Pendulum: Freedom of Thought," a provocative new work by Michael Megliola. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) never d… ...