See Galileo's gravitation experiment re-enacted on the moon:
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"Galileo's Daughter" is a captivating book.
It recounts the relationship between Galileo and his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Daughter
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http://galileo.rice.edu/fam/maria.html
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"Galileo's Daughter" is a captivating book.
It recounts the relationship between Galileo and his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Daughter
http://galileo.rice.edu/fam/maria.html
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Gravity: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Here on Earth, we take gravity so for granted that it took an apple falling from a tree to trigger Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation. But gravity, which draws objects together in proportion to their mass, is about much more than fallen fruit. Read on for some of the strangest facts about this universal force.
