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|Year=1661 | |||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=Galileo Galilei Discovers . . . Backspin! | |Headline=Galileo Galilei Discovers . . . Backspin! | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Famous | |Tags=Famous, | ||
|Text=<p>The great scientist wrote, in a treatise discussing how the ball behaves in different ball games, including tennis: | |Country=England | ||
<p>Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. | |Game=Stoolball, | ||
|Notables=Galileo | |||
|Text=<p>The great scientist wrote, in a treatise discussing how the ball behaves in different ball games, including tennis: "Stool-ball, when they play in a stony way, . . . they do not trundle the ball upon the ground, but throw it, as if to pitch a quait. . . . . To make the ball stay, they hold it artificially with their hand uppermost, and it undermost, which in its delivery hath a contrary twirl or rolling conferred upon it by the fingers, by means whereof in its coming to the ground neer the mark it stays there, or runs very little forwards."</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>Galileo Galilei, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mathematical Collections and Translations. "Inglished from his original Italian copy by Thomas Salusbury"</span> (London, 1661), page 142.</p> | |||
<p>Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>David further asks: "could it be that this is the source of the term putting "English" on a ball?"</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | The great scientist wrote, in a treatise discussing how the ball behaves in different ball games, including tennis: "Stool-ball, when they play in a stony way, . . . they do not trundle the ball upon the ground, but throw it, as if to pitch a quait. . . . . To make the ball stay, they hold it artificially with their hand uppermost, and it undermost, which in its delivery hath a contrary twirl or rolling conferred upon it by the fingers, by means whereof in its coming to the ground neer the mark it stays there, or runs very little forwards."
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| Sources | Galileo Galilei, Mathematical Collections and Translations. "Inglished from his original Italian copy by Thomas Salusbury" (London, 1661), page 142. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. |
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| Comment | David further asks: "could it be that this is the source of the term putting "English" on a ball?" Edit with form to add a comment |
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