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Galileo's experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa

  • Galileo's experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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    Galileo's experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    Between 1589–92, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped two spheres of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass, according to a biography by Galileo's pupil Vincenzo Viviani, composed in 1654 and published in 1717

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