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The Initial Growth of Galileo’s Problem

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In the preceding pages, we have tried to describe the development of the First Day of the Discorsi as a journey—albeit a digressive one—from a definite beginning to a less definite end. But the ideas presented in the Second Day had a less clear-cut fate. Their history is characterized by fragmentation; instead of a highway, we have dozens of footpaths, weaving all over the terrain, sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting, never straightforward.

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    Edoardo Benvenuto (Ordinario di Scienza delle Costruzioni)

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Benvenuto, E. (1991). The Initial Growth of Galileo’s Problem. In: An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2982-7_7

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