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::Of course, it probably doesn't help that the translation of Aristotle I'm looking at seems to be literal, while the translation of Galileo is readable and may well be unconsciously informed by a modern understanding of physics.
::Of course, it probably doesn't help that the translation of Aristotle I'm looking at seems to be literal, while the translation of Galileo is readable and may well be unconsciously informed by a modern understanding of physics.
::In any case, Galileo's writing shows a very good understanding of how air resistance fits in. Both of them are theorizing on what would happen in a vacuum. Galileo says everything would fall at the same, uniformly accelerated speed. Aristotle says everything would fall at infinite speed. Galileo "got'' inertia, Aristotle didn't. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 19:41, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
::In any case, Galileo's writing shows a very good understanding of how air resistance fits in. Both of them are theorizing on what would happen in a vacuum. Galileo says everything would fall at the same, uniformly accelerated speed. Aristotle says everything would fall at infinite speed. Galileo "got" inertia, Aristotle didn't. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 19:41, 5 May 2007 (EDT)