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Galileo Galilei
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was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa.” (1:1) “His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune.” (2:1) Galileo had an “aptitude for mathematical and mechanical pursuits, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies which promised no substantial return, des ....
Middle of essay ....r or not Galileo dropped anything off the campanile-or leaning tower--of the Duomo in Pisa. If he did so, it certainly could not have been an “experiment” in the modern sense of the word-trying to drop objects of different weights simultaneously, from the edge of the tower, at the very same time,which is not easy to do, and then observe how quickly they fall, especially when time elapsed would only have been a matter of seconds-and nothing like the stop watch or any other convenient device-had b.... |
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