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Re: Galileo's Freefall Experiment



From Donald Simanek's "Science History Quiz", as posteed...

18. Who first proposed the experiment of dropping two balls of
different weight from a high tower to test Aristotle's assertion that
they'd fall at equal speeds?

Am I missing something here? Wasn't Aristotle's assertion that they'd fall
at different speeds?

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
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UC San Diego, Chemistry