While Kepler was mostly interested in celestial spheres, his contemporary, a Flemish
engineer, Simon Stevinus, had more down-to-earth interests and was extending the works of
Archimedes on mechanical equilibrium commonly known as “statics.”—George Gamow, The
Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:This
passage from George Gamow's The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
does not contain an argument. The passage contains two claims, the minimum number for
arguments, but no claim is given as a reason for another.
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