Teaching physics during the 17th century: some examples from the works of Evangelista Torricelli
Abstract
This paper is proposing some physics problems from a book, De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium, written by Evangelista Torricelli, with the aim of showing how physics was taught in a university, that of Pisa, in the 17th century.
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