Galileo Galilei · Science

The Law of Falling Bodies

How Galileo overturned Aristotle’s physics with a ramp, a water-clock, and one devastating thought experiment - and made motion a thing you could write as an equation.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that two stones, heavy and light, fall together, and that distance falls as the square of the time. Reconstruct the thought experiment that proves Aristotle’s rule contradicts itself, in your own words.

Leads to Isaac Newton.

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