This scientist created a fictional character named Salviati who explained that somebody inside a closed ship cabin cannot detect whether the ship is moving at constant speed or not moving at all in his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. That principle led to a pre-relativistic method of adding velocities, this physicist's namesake reference frame transformations. Another finding of his led to a clock designed by Christiaan Huygens, and stated that the length but not the mass affected the period of a pendulum. This person also made telescopes which allowed him to discover his eponymous moons, the four largest ones of Jupiter. Name this Italian scientist who, according to one of his students, droppe
This scientist created a fictional character named Salviati who explained that somebody inside a closed ship cabin cannot detect whether the ship is moving at constant speed or not moving at all in his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. That principle led to a pre-relativistic method of adding velocities, this physicist's namesake reference frame transformations. Another finding of his led to a clock designed by Christiaan Huygens, and stated that the length but not the mass affected the period of a pendulum. This person also made telescopes which allowed him to discover his eponymous moons, the four largest ones of Jupiter. Name this Italian scientist who, according to one of his students, dropped cannonballs from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
This scientist created a fictional character named Salviati who explained that somebody inside a closed ship cabin cannot detect whether the ship is moving at constant speed or not moving at all in his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
{Galileo Galilei} [accept either or {both} names]