Galileo Galilei's and Simon Stevin's Tower Experiments
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One of the best known stories in the history of science is that one day while professor at the University of Pisa, Galileo Galilei went up to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, i.e., the campanile [bell tower], with a crowd below, in order to drop two objects, of the same nature but of significantly different weights, and thereby demonstrated that the two objects would land at the same time.
Galileo Galilei's and Simon Stevin's Tower Experiments
Galileo Galilei's and Simon Stevin's Tower…
Galileo Galilei's and Simon Stevin's Tower Experiments
One of the best known stories in the history of science is that one day while professor at the University of Pisa, Galileo Galilei went up to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, i.e., the campanile [bell tower], with a crowd below, in order to drop two objects, of the same nature but of significantly different weights, and thereby demonstrated that the two objects would land at the same time.