This is a literary blog based on the book Starry Messenger by Peter Sis.
Friday, June 19, 2009
1604
Law of Falling Bodies.
After years of experimentation, of trial and error, I have proven Aristotle wrong! I have proven that all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. Falling objects obey the law of uniform accelerated motion!
Revealing great, unusual, and remarkable spectacles opening these to the consideration of every man, and especially of philosophers and astronomers; as observed by Galileo Galilei Gentleman of Florence Professor of Mathematics in the University of Padua With the Aid of a Spyglass lately invented by him. In the surface of the Moon, in innumerable Fixed stars, in Nebulae, and above all in FOUR PLANETS swiftly revolving about Jupiter at differing distances and periods, and known to no one before the Author recently perceived them and decided that they should be named THE MEDICEAN STARS
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