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100			_a Roger G Newton
245			_aGalileo's pendulum from the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
260			_aNew Delhi _bViva Books Private Limited _c2005
300			_a153p.
505			_a Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature -- Successors : ubiquitous timekeeping -- Isaac Newton : the physics of the pendulum -- Sound and light : oscillations everywhere -- Quantum : oscillators make particles.
520			_a Bored at Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead and remarked to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo's Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology.
650			_a Time measurements. Pendulum.
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