伽利略对标度定律的发现
物理学史与哲学
2015-06-26 v3
摘要
伽利略认识到自然并非标度不变,这促使他随后发现标度定律;本文将其溯源至他就但丁《地狱》的地理所给出的两次演讲。
引用
@article{arxiv.physics/0110031,
title = {Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws},
author = {Mark A. Peterson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0110031},
year = {2015}
}
备注
15 pages, Latex. The discussion section has been rewritten to improve the exposition, and to include discussion of a 1609 letter to Antonio de'Medici. It has been submitted to American Journal of Physics