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   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > Physics and Chemistry advance when someone finally makes the critical   
   > measurement that disproves the old system, like Galileo supposedly dropping   
   > weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa to disprove Aristotle and allow   
   > science to break free from his stifling errors.   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_experiment   
      
   Read this carefully.  The story about such an experiment by Galilei is based   
   on a posthumous account by Galilei's assistant, and probably never happened;   
   it is reaonsable to assume that Galilei disproved Aristotelian physics by   
   rolling solid objects down inclined planes, and finding them to arrive at   
   the same time despite different masses/weights instead.   
      
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