Galileo changed the very concepts or categories by which natural philosophy could deal with matter and motion. Central to these changes was his introduction of time as a fundamental concept. He worked with the pendulum and with the inclined plane to discover his new concept of motion. Both of these showed him that acceleration and time were important for making motion intelligible. © 2005 Springer.
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Machamer, P., & Hepburn, B. (2005). Galileo and the pendulum: Latching on to time. In The Pendulum: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives (pp. 99–113). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3526-8_8
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