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GOOD stories are apt to survive by their very fitness. In old age they may lose their savour because they are deemed legendary, but it is not well to part too lightly with old friends. The three best stories about Galileo are all under suspicion—the swinging lamp, the leaning tower, and “eppur si muove”. I am sufficiently naïve to believe that all these three stories may have an underlying basis of fact.
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NATURE, 136, 6, July 6 (1935).
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Eve, A. Galileo and Scientific History: The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. Nature 137, 8–10 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137008a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137008a0