Drake, Galileo, and the Law of Inertia

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Description: Stillman Drake has argued that Galileo believed that inertial motion is rectilinear motion, and that certain of Galileo's references to uniform circular motion were part of a strategy against the Aristotelian geocentrists. Drake's arguments are examined and are found to be unconvincing.
John Losee
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