(February 15, 2018 at 9:29 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(February 15, 2018 at 9:10 pm)polymath257 Wrote: The example of Faraday is interesting. He did a lot of the groundwork on electromagnetism, but he was primarily an experimentalist. The mathematical theory came later. So the engineers were able to start making practical objects before we had a mathematical theory. Faraday's conceptual models didn't really go that far. It was his experiments that opened up a whole new area.
Didn't old what's his name do this with two different sized balls in a tilted building?
Well, not actually. Galileo used inclined planes. But he also immediately came up with a mathematical treatment.
