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April 16, 2008

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Dan Haggerty

Good review. I will buy this book. But it is James Clerk Maxwell, not Clarke, yes?

bill blanton

yes,it is Clerk.

Vince Ciricola

You mentioned some confusion at WSJ re the use of terms 'distance' and 'velocity'. Is this the sentence you were referring to?: "He discovered thereby that speed was related to the square of falling-time (something that dropping a feather and an anvil from a tower could never prove)".

Mira

That saves me. Thanks for being so sseinble!

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