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100	1		_aNewton, Roger G.
245	1	0	_aGalileo's pendulum : _bfrom the rhythm of time to the making of matter / _cby Roger G. Newton.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. ; _aLondon : _bHarvard University Press, _c2005.
300			_a153 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2004.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aBiological 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			_aBored 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		0	_aTime measurements.
650		0	_aPendulum.
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