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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is perhaps most widely known for his telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter, and for his subsequent attack on Aristotle’s popular geocentric model of Earth’s solar system.
Do not children fall with impunity from heights which would cost their elders a broken leg or perhaps a fractured skull?
—Galileo Galilei
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See, for instance, Peterson, M. A., Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws, American Journal of Physics, 70, 2002.
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The author here apparently means that the solution is unique. [Trans.].
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Galileo will develop these ideas with greater precision during the second day of his Dialogues. See Chap. 7 of the present volume. Also, a clear and concise presentation of the relationship between animal size and physiology is provided in Haldane, J., On Being the Right Size, Harper’s Magazine, pp. 424–427, 1926.—[K.K.].
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i.e. Galileo: The author frequently refers to himself under this name. [Trans.].
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Kleiber, M., Body size and metabolism, Hilgardia, 6, 315–351, 1932.
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Kuehn, K. (2015). Scaling in Art and Nature. In: A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1366-4_1
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