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label Aristotle-Galileo story a myth
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Revert: Galileo indeed described and showed uniform acceleration
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen
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Reverted edits by Jewishguy (Talk); changed back to last version by Conservative
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Galileo carried out systematic quantitative (numerical) measurements rather than just describing things qualitatively
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Galileo dropped a cannonball and a musketball simultaneously from a tower, and observed that they hit the ground at nearly the same time.
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→External links: The motion of falling bodies
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acceleration and velocity
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Galileo discovered the mathematical expression of the law of falling bodies: the distance increases as the square of the time
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History topic: Theories of gravitation - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Theories based on observation were not always subject to experimental test, and some errors lingered on for centuries
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Socrates ... a true philosopher, a lover of wisdom, who tried to elicit the truth
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Aristotle's approach to science differed from Plato's
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many zoological links
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It all began with Socrates, a true philosopher, a lover of wisdom
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Aristotle's work in zoology was the grandest biological synthesis of the time
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ancient Greek philosophers tried to make sense of the natural world
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New page: The '''history of science''' goes back into the dim and musty reaches of antiquity, when philosophers first began to speculate about what causes things to move and grow.
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