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→Galileo's experiments dropping objects?: I don't really agree with saying that he was proved wrong unless someone can show
::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)
::: I don't agree with "Aristotle couldn't have done any experiments or even been a very good observer." He is credited with all sorts of scientific observations. Yeah, he did some goofy theorizing, and I can't make much sense of his physics writings. But I don't really agree with saying that he was proved wrong unless someone can show precisely what he said and precisely what proves him wrong. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 15:23, 6 May 2007 (EDT)