Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
“Anatomy of a fall: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the story of g” (CLICK HERE for it)
The first person to conduct precise gravity experiments was Fr. Giovanni Battista Riccioli, S. J. in the early seventeenth century. This 2012 article from the magazine Physics Today discusses Fr. Riccioli’s experiments regarding how gravity works and what was the acceleration due to gravity (now known as ‘g’). (CLICK HERE to continue.)
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