According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...

that all objects fall at the same rate. It's the kind of story that's easy to imagine, easy to remember, but whether he ever performed the experiment at the tower is debatable. Still, Galileo did ...

Instead of "essences" and "natural places," Galileo sought quantifiable entities such as time, distance, and acceleration to describe the way everyday objects move, bend, break, and fall.

This is exactly what Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before: all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass. The result was predicted by well-established theory ...

Mostly used to help older people read, these lenses focused on objects between ... times (12 divided by four). Galileo played with this formula until, by the late fall of 1609, he'd made a ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed ... with a principle noted over three centuries earlier by Galileo: that falling objects accelerated at the same rate regardless of their ...

GALILEO: Good morning ... Now force is the push and pull on an object and I'm not so sure that Aristotle's theory around force is correct and people have believed it for well over 1500 years.