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In 1638, Galileo argued through geometric reasoning in Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences that a giant several times the height of an ordinary person cannot physically exist.
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伽利略平方立方定律：为什么巨人在物理上不可能存在
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