%0 Journal Article %J Dynamis %D 2008 %T Galileo and Huygens on free fall: Mathematical and methodological ifferences %A Ducheyne, Steffen %X

In this essay, I will scrutinize the differences between Galileo's and Huygens's demonstrations of free fall, which can be found respectively in the Discorsi and the Horologium, from a mathematical, representational and methodological perspective. I argue that more can be learnt from such an analysis than the thesis that Huygens re-styled Galilean mechanics which is a communis opinio. I shall argue that the differences in their approach on free fall highlight a significantly different mathematical and methodological outlook.

%B Dynamis %V 28 %P 243–274 %G eng %R 10.4321/S0211-95362008000100011