While living in Pisa, Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped differently sized masses from the 'leaning tower' in order to demonstrate that they would all fall at the same speed a prediction at odds with the conventional Aristotelian view that they would fall at different rates, the heavier ones reaching the ground first.
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Jupiter Odyssey
The Story of NASA's Galileo Mission (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
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by David M. Harland
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November 10, 2000, Springer, Praxis Pub.
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"While living in Pisa, Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped differently sized masses from the 'leaning tower' in order to demonstrate that they would all fall at the same speed a prediction at odds with the conventional Aristotelian view that they would fall at different rates, the heavier ones reaching the ground first."
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