“Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in mo…”

“Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in motion compounded from equable horizontal and from naturally accelerated downward [motions], it describes a semiparabolic line in its movement.”

— Galileo Galilei

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Author, Day Four, Stillman Drake translation (1974) p. 269

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