2000 years prior to Galileo, Aristotle made the profound statement: Heavy objects fall faster than light objects. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was made famous by Galileo when he challenged Aristotle's Hypothesis "that heavy objects fall faster than light objects". The demonstration was held in front of a crowd of interested parties. Galileo's demonstration, once and for all, put to rest the absurdity of such an utterance, and proved beyond a shawdow of a doubt, that heavy objects and light objects fall at the same rate of speed.
The interesting observation here is that for 2000 years no one doubted that the statement could have been false. No one attempted to disprove it before Galileo. They just accepted this statement as fact. This was, after all, the great Greek thinker of our Antiquity! Who are we to doubt such things?
2006-10-20
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