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:::: From what he says about ratios, I ''think'' Galileo represented Aristotle fairly. Aristotle seems to be saying that the speed of a falling object is directly proportional to its weight and inversely proportional to the resistance of the medium.  

:::: From what he says about ratios, I ''think'' Galileo represented Aristotle fairly. Aristotle seems to be saying that the speed of a falling object is directly proportional to its weight and inversely proportional to the resistance of the medium.  

:::: At best you can say Aristotle is correct in situations where the Reynolds number is very low. He's wildly incorrect for things like stones and cannonballs and blocks of wood falling distances of tens to hundreds of feet in air. I don't see anything obvious in the passage I linked to that shows he has any awareness of his statements being ''limited'' to things like inflated bladders or gossamer. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 16:04, 6 May 2007 (EDT)

:::: At best you can say Aristotle is correct in situations where the Reynolds number is very low. He's wildly incorrect for things like stones and cannonballs and blocks of wood falling distances of tens to hundreds of feet in air. I don't see anything obvious in the passage I linked to that shows he has any awareness of his statements being ''limited'' to things like inflated bladders or gossamer or feathers and not applying to stones and cannonballs and blocks of wood. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 16:04, 6 May 2007 (EDT)