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View SchemaGalileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws
| Authors | Mark A. Peterson |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0110031 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110031 |
| DOI | 10.1119/1.1475329 |
Abstract
Galileo's realization that nature is not scale invariant, motivating his subsequent discovery of scaling laws, is traced to two lectures he gave on the geography of Dante's Inferno.
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